122. "I wish they wouldn't boo the guy. It just makes him mad. He's tough enough in a good humor."
Tigers' outfielder Jim Delsing after Mickey catapulted a high home run deep into the right-field third deck at Tiger Stadium when the fans booed him when he came up to bat

123. "You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run."
Mickey, calling his shot to Elston Howard moments before hitting Barney Schultz' first pitch for a home run in the 1964 World Series to win the game and break Babe Ruth's World Series home run record

124. "Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen."
Mickey when a fan expressed awe at his ability to call his shot in the 1964 World Series

125. "I'm gonna let him hit one."
Detroit pitcher Denny McLain to catcher Bill Freehan moments before Mantle's 535th home run

126. "(Denny McLain's) thinking, 'I laid one in for you, hit it!' And sometimes when you know what's comin' it's tough to hit it. They're all grinnin' - Mickey, McLain, and all of 'em, and all of the, uh, rather, the catcher, Freehan, and OH BOY! THERE IT GOES! IT'S A FAIR BALL AND VERY DEEP! Aw, you gotta give that McLain some credit, I wanna tell ya. He's grinning a mile wide. Boy I tell you, you think these ball players don't have heart, Frank, and then - THERE'S MICKEY NODDING TO HIM! THANKING HIM! AND BOY, I TELL YOU, I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN MY LIFE! Mantle has now gone ahead of Jimmy Foxx with 535 home runs. And now McLain is - Pepitone says, 'Lay one in for me!' and McLain shakes his head at him and says, 'No, Sir!'"
Announcer Phil Rizzuto with Frank Messer, actual game call of Mickey's 535th home run on Yankees Radio, September 19, 1968

127. "There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower."
Mickey on his relationship with Billy Martin

128. "You hit .350 you're a leader. You hit .250 and you're not."
Mickey Mantle

129. "Jesus Christ. If he can play, I got to play, too."
Joe Pepitone on watching an injured Mickey play

130. "The only way to get a better piece of chicken is to be a rooster."
Ad slogan of "Mickey Mantle's Country Cookin'" restaurant

131. "I wanted to throw my glass at the TV."
Mickey after broadcasters announced that Reggie Jackson had broken Mickey's World Series home run record - they had erroneously counted all of Jackson's post-season home runs, not just his World Series homers

132. "If I hadn't met those two guys (Billy Martin and Whitey Ford) at the start of my career, I would have lasted another five years."
Mickey Mantle

133. "If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time."
Mickey Mantle

134. "Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew."
Mickey Mantle

135. "If I stand straight up tomorrow it's a fastball. If I bend over it'll be a curve. But don't hit a home run off me."
Whitey Ford to Billy Martin the night after Billy was traded from the Yankees to Kansas City, and Whitey was pitching in the game to Billy the following day

136. "Don't worry, don't worry."
Billy Martin's response to Whitey Ford

137. "Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha…"
Billy Martin rounding the bases after hitting a home run off Whitey Ford

138. "Thwap!"
Whitey hitting Billy with a pitch his next at-bat after hitting a home run off Whitey

139. "If we want somebody to learn to strike out, we'll call you."
Yankees' manager Billy Martin, joking to Mickey about Mickey becoming a hitting instructor

140. "I never saw him fight. I never saw Billy fight."
Mickey on Billy Martin