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.
JOE DIMAGGIOI’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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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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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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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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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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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 think there are some players born to play ball.
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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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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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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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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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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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It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!
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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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I no longer have it (desire to play).
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