I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.
JOE DIMAGGIOI 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.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
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Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
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Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
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Just two words: a masterpiece.
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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
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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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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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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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I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
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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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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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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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I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.
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