In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
JOE DIMAGGIOA person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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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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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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You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you’re down.
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I no longer have it (desire to play).
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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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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
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I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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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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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 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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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 want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
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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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There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
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