After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.
JOE DIMAGGIOAt my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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I think there are some players born to play ball.
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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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You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
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We need a hit, so here I go.
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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 want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
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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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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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The test of an outfielder’s skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.
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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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It’s got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
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Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
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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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You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to ‘Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,’ then your body says, ‘Who me?’
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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 nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
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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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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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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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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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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 baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
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