There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
JOE DIMAGGIOI’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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. 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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Baseball didn’t really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping.
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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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It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!
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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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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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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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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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Just two words: a masterpiece.
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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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When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
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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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All pitchers are born pitchers.
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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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