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.
JOE DIMAGGIOI feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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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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When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
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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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I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.
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Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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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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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 ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you’re down.
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I thought he had been shot.
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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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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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We need a hit, so here I go.
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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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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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