Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
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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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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Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
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I no longer have it (desire to play).
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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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It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!
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There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
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There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
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Just two words: a masterpiece.
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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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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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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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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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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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We need a hit, so here I go.
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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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I think there are some players born to play ball.
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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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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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All pitchers are born pitchers.
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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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The test of an outfielder’s skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.
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When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
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The absolute worst thing a person can say about your pictures is, ‘”That’s nice.” It’s the kiss of death.
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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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