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 DIMAGGIOYou 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 DIMAGGIOYou 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 DIMAGGIOThere’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
JOE DIMAGGIOToo many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
JOE DIMAGGIOThere is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
JOE DIMAGGIOI thought he had been shot.
JOE DIMAGGIOA 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 DIMAGGIOYou ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you’re down.
JOE DIMAGGIOI’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 DIMAGGIOI 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 DIMAGGIOI 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 DIMAGGIOThe 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.
JOE DIMAGGIOI’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
JOE DIMAGGIOI want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
JOE DIMAGGIOAfter I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.
JOE DIMAGGIOPutting the Yankee uniform on every day.
JOE DIMAGGIO