I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.
JOE DIMAGGIOIf 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.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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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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I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
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I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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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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After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.
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It’s got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn’t want to let him down.
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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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I thought he had been shot.
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It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!
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Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
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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 think there are some players born to play ball.
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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 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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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’m proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.
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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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Just two words: a masterpiece.
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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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There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
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Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
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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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All pitchers are born pitchers.
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