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.
JOE DIMAGGIONow I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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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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We need a hit, so here I go.
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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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It’s got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
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I no longer have it (desire to play).
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Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
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It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!
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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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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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I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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All pitchers are born pitchers.
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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 want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
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