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 DIMAGGIOI want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
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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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All pitchers are born pitchers.
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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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Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
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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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It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!
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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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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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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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Just two words: a masterpiece.
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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 no longer have it (desire to play).
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