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.
JOE DIMAGGIOA person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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Just two words: a masterpiece.
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I no longer have it (desire to play).
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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That’s why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
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I thought he had been shot.
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Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
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When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
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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 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.
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Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
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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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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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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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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 played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.
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