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.
JOE DIMAGGIOToo many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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I thought he had been shot.
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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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The absolute worst thing a person can say about your pictures is, ‘”That’s nice.” It’s the kiss of death.
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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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There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
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Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
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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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I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
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Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
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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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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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It’s got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
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All pitchers are born pitchers.
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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 no longer have it (desire to play).
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