When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
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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We need a hit, so here I go.
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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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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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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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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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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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I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.
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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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It’s got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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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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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 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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