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.
JOE DIMAGGIOThe 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.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
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I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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We need a hit, so here I go.
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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
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I no longer have it (desire to play).
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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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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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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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Motivation is something nobody else can give you. Others can help motivate you, but basically it must come from you and it must be a constant desire to do your very best at all times and under any circumstances.
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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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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
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Now this is over thirty years later and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn’t. My number was up.
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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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