A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
JOE DIMAGGIOYou start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to ‘Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,’ then your body says, ‘Who me?’
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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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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We need a hit, so here I go.
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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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The test of an outfielder’s skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.
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The phrase ‘off with the crack of the bat’, while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
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I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
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It’s got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
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You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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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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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.
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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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There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
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