I thought he had been shot.
JOE DIMAGGIOI thought he had been shot.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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We need a hit, so here I go.
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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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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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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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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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The test of an outfielder’s skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.
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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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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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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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There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
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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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I no longer have it (desire to play).
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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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