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.
JOE DIMAGGIOIf 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.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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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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After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.
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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!
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When 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.
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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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All pitchers are born pitchers.
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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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Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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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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You 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?’
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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
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I thought he had been shot.
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