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 Mickey Mantle,born in October 20,1931, in Spavinaw, Oklahoma. Mickey Mantle played three sports in his life: basketball, football, and baseball. He went to University of Oklahoma and play his favorite sport, baseball. He started his career with the Yankees in April 17, 1951, and played with the Yankees for eighteen years. He won three American League MVP. He played in sixteen All-Star games, and also led his team to win seven World Series. He still holds the records for the most World Series, 18 home runs, 40 RBIs, and 42 runs. In 1956, Mickey Mantle won the top professional athlete of the year, and also the triple crown. His batting average was with a .353, 52 HR, and 130 RBI, and his first of three MVP awards. During Mantle's career he had lots of injuries. As a school student he accumulated both acute and chronic injuries to bones and to the cartilage in his legs. Simply swinging a bat put his knee in pain. As a 19-year-old rookie in his first World Series, Mantle tore the cartilage in his right knee on a fly ball while he was playing right field. During the 1957 World Series, he got injured again. After that Mickey Mantle had difficulty hitting or throwing from his left side. This injury, more than anything, would cause his retirement. Mantle announced his retirement on March 1, 1969, and in 1974, his uniform number seven was retired by the Yankees. (Mickey_Mantle)

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1. "It takes courage to be that honest. It takes courage, and lots of it, to be a man like Fred Hutchinson." ( 158) This quote is dealing with courage and honesty, and how courage is related to honesty. It takes courage to be honest. Sometimes when it is easy to lie, people will show their courage by telling the truth. Courage and honesty can be the difference between being a boy or being a man. Those two traits define who a man is and how a man behaves with other people.

2. "That's another way of saying that he wasn't scared of what happened, and he wasn't scared of what might happen. That's another way of saying that Casey Stengel is a man of courage." ( 167) Many people are scared of losing something or what will happen to them, so they will never try to do something. People need courage to try new things and not be scared. If you are scared of what will happen to you if you do such things, you will never succeed. Never think of what happened or what will happen want you decide to do something. Don't worry too much, or you will just be stuck and will never make decision. A man should have courage to take the challenge. Do not be scared whether you will be successful or not; you just need to have courage to handle anything that comes along. 3. "The point is, as a human being you can anticipate trouble and be scared by it. And it takes courage to do the right thing when you're scared."(45) Being a human, when you are in trouble, it takes courage to do the right thing. People will not be successful if you are too scare to correct yourself. You can be scare of trouble, but you have to at least try to correct yourself. 4. "But if you want something, if you want to be somebody, you have to have it. You have to hang on. You have to come through. It isn't easy, but you can do it. I know you can."(118) If you want to get something, it takes time and also you have to believe in yourself. Many poeple fail to do something or fail to get something, not because they do not try hard enough, it is because they do not think they can do it. If you keep thinking that you cannot accomplish the task, you will lose your courage. When the most difficult part comes your way, you will give up. Life is all about courage. When people have to meet some challenge or have to deal with a lot of things, and you do not trust yourself, then you will not be able to complete any thing or be successful at anything. When you meet your challenge, and you can not deal with it; a man will show his guts and overcome the challenge. We have to be brave no matter how hard the challenge is. 5. "It was the only time in all years I've played ball that I felt like cheering when a man on the other team hit a homer. You just have to admire a man with guts like that."(89) Do what you suppose to do and do not be scare by the hard job or challenge. A man will have guts to the challenge and complete it without quit. The only reason that he will complete the job is because he has guts to take the challenge. 6. "He didn't get scared, and he didn't live scared."(24) We do not have to be scared of something bad will happen when you decide to do something. If we trust ourselves enough, and we will be able to complete the job or the thing. Always get it a shot, do not be scare by the challenege.

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work cited Mantle, Mickey. //The Quality of Courage//. New York: Bedford S Wynne, 1964. Print. "mantle-rfk550water"  "mickey-mantle-4"  "mickey mantle" [] "mickey-mantle-hof-2"  "mickey mantle ground slam" [] "Mickey_Mantle" 29 Oct. 2009. Web. .