It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!
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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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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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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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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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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You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you’re down.
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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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The test of an outfielder’s skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.
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It’s got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
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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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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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Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
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I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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Just two words: a masterpiece.
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