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Joe DiMaggio

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.
JOE DIMAGGIO

Ask Drink Kind Quote Remember Reporter Soft Some Thought
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.
JOE DIMAGGIO

Club Feel Like Longer Manager Produce Reach Stage Teammate
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.
JOE DIMAGGIO

Ball Big Boy Ever Family Hungry Kept League Made Player Rich
The test of an outfielder’s skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.
JOE DIMAGGIO

Against Catch Come Fence Outfielder Skill Test
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?’
JOE DIMAGGIO

Ball Bend Body Chase Command Enfiled Forward Immediately Peg Run Scoop Start
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.
JOE DIMAGGIO

Always Day Get Go How Kick Many Matter No Open Special Through
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 DIMAGGIO

Baseball Blood Get Hit Into Kock Really Streak Until
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.
JOE DIMAGGIO

Apologize Cab Driver Guy Later Over Serious Thirty Years
I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.
JOE DIMAGGIO

Best Day Every First Know Play Seeing Someone Time
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.
JOE DIMAGGIO

Back Come Contentment Country Found Happiness More Proud Since Yankee
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.
JOE DIMAGGIO

Always Down Least Look never Person Play Seen Stand Thought Want
In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
JOE DIMAGGIO

Ballplayer Case Country People Person Underpaid Very
Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
JOE DIMAGGIO

Ball Belong Kid League Major Many Play Today Too
I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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Actor Ballplayer
A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
JOE DIMAGGIO

Become Best Doing Example Leader Natural Person
At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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Age Anything Greatest Happy Just Living My Name

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