There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
JOE DIMAGGIOI want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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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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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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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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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
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It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!
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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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I thought he had been shot.
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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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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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All pitchers are born pitchers.
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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 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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Just two words: a masterpiece.
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