Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
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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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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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’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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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
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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 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.
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I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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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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I think there are some players born to play ball.
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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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The absolute worst thing a person can say about your pictures is, ‘”That’s nice.” It’s the kiss of death.
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I no longer have it (desire to play).
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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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Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
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When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
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When you have five or six potential hall of famers on your team … that’s when you win penants and championships. The only thing you have to be concerned about is getting the ballplayers to bed on time.
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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 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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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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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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We need a hit, so here I go.
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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
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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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