You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you’re down.
JOE DIMAGGIOToo many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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I think there are some players born to play ball.
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I thought he had been shot.
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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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There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
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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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I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.
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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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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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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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Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
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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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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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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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