61* (2001)

Actors

• John Anton (actor)
• Joe Arnold (actor)
• Todd Bacile (actor)
• Chris Bauer (actor)
• E.E. Bell (actor)
• Scott Bibee (actor)
• Ted Billick (actor)
• Luke Bonner (actor)
• Mark Bonto (actor)
• Paul Borghese (actor)
• Gene Borthwick (actor)
• Haynes Brooke (actor)
• Richard Brown (actor)
• Richard Alan Brown (actor)
• Paul Ambrus (actor)

Genres

• Biography
• Drama
• History
• Sport

Taglines:

Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris. Why did America have room in its heart for only one hero?

Quotes:

Mickey Mantle: I like women with small hands, they make my dick look big.

Bob Sheppard: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Yankee Stadium.

Yogi Berra: Ninety percent of the game is half mental.

Whitey Ford: [Sotto voce, to Mickey Mantle] This guy died and nobody told him.::Commissioner Ford Frick: As I stand here this afternoon, it is impossible not to think of the Babe; not to feel his presence here even now. He was more than a ball player. He was everything that is special about this game. He was everything that is special about America.::Mickey Mantle: [Sotto voce, to Whitey] I bet I got more pussy than he did.

[about the sports press]::Mickey Mantle: That's just great. One guy's got me all washed up, the other's got me beatin' Ruth's record. You guys should get together an' make up your minds, tell me how I am so I know how to play.

[after a home run]::Roger Maris: Curveball?::Mickey Mantle: Yeah, but it didn't curve.

Mickey Mantle: Roger, are we feuding?::Roger Maris: They said so on the TV, it must be true.::Mickey Mantle: Well, fuck you then.::Roger Maris: Up yours.

[after Maris hits #59, he sits down next to Mickey]::Mickey Mantle: What happened? I was on the john.

Mickey Mantle: [whispers to Maris] That blonde back there has got the biggest tits I've ever seen in my life.

Mickey: I just ain't getting there. I just can't play no more. I'm wore out, done. I'm out of the race. Thought I took pretty good care of myself too.::Roger: You did Mick. Damn straight you did.::Mickey: Well anyway, he's all yours if you want him. You go get that fat fuck.

Famous quotes by Mickey Mantle:

"I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love."

"Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'"

"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."

"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."

"Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was."

"To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer."

"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."

"The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know."

"Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball."

"He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie"

"Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part."

"I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability."

"Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball."

"When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered."

"After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases."

"You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth."

"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."

"I don't care who you are, you hear those boos."

"He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie."

"It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life."