A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
JOE DIMAGGIOToo many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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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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I no longer have it (desire to play).
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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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You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you’re down.
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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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We need a hit, so here I go.
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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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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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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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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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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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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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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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