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.
JOE DIMAGGIOI no longer have it (desire to play).
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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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.
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It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!
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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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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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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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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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There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
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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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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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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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I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
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If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I’d have to say, ‘George, you and I are about to become partners.’
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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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