Mickey Mantle Player Quotations

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.

After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.

Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.