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 DIMAGGIOWe need a hit, so here I go.
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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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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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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When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
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There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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We need a hit, so here I go.
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I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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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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Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
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I no longer have it (desire to play).
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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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