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 DIMAGGIOAt my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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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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Motivation is something nobody else can give you. Others can help motivate you, but basically it must come from you and it must be a constant desire to do your very best at all times and under any circumstances.
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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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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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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 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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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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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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It’s got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
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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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All pitchers are born pitchers.
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I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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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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When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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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 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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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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Just two words: a masterpiece.
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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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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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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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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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I no longer have it (desire to play).
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