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 DIMAGGIOWhen 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.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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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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After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.
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I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches an pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
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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 feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.
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Just two words: a masterpiece.
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It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!
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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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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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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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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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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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