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?’
JOE DIMAGGIOYou ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you’re down.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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All pitchers are born pitchers.
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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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Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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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 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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Baseball didn’t really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping.
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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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I no longer have it (desire to play).
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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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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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Just two words: a masterpiece.
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Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
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It’s got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
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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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