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 DIMAGGIOThe absolute worst thing a person can say about your pictures is, ‘”That’s nice.” It’s the kiss of death.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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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 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’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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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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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 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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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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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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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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It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!
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It’s got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
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Just two words: a masterpiece.
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I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
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I thought he had been shot.
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