I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.
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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I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.
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I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
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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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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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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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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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It’s got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
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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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Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
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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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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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