I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn’t know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.
JOE DIMAGGIOWhen you have five or six potential hall of famers on your team … that’s when you win penants and championships. The only thing you have to be concerned about is getting the ballplayers to bed on time.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.
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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you’re down.
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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
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I think there are some players born to play ball.
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Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
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I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches an pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
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A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That’s why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
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I thought he had been shot.
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I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn’t want to let him down.
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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don’t do it, and it won’t happen.
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The reason I play so hard is that somewhere out there is some kid who has never seen me play before, and I don’t want to disappoint him.
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I no longer have it (desire to play).
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All pitchers are born pitchers.
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