At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
JOE DIMAGGIONow 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.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
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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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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 no longer have it (desire to play).
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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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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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I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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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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I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.
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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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I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.
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I thought he had been shot.
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All pitchers are born pitchers.
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