Too 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.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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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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Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
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There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
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I thought he had been shot.
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We need a hit, so here I go.
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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’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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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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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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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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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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I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.
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