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 DIMAGGIOThere’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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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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You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you’re down.
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I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
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I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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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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The test of an outfielder’s skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.
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There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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It’s got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
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Just two words: a masterpiece.
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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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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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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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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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