When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
JOE DIMAGGIOIf 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.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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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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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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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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If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I’d have to say, ‘George, you and I are about to become partners.’
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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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There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
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It’s got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
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I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
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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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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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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
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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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After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.
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