There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
JOE DIMAGGIOIf 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.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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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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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 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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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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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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You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you’re down.
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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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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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Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
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Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
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We need a hit, so here I go.
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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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The test of an outfielder’s skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.
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