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.
JOE DIMAGGIOI’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.
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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
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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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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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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!
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I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
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I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn’t want to let him down.
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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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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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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 ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you’re down.
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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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