When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
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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I no longer have it (desire to play).
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I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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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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I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches an pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
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It’s got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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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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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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I thought he had been shot.
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Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
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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 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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I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.
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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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