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.
JOE DIMAGGIOYou ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you’re down.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
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It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!
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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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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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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’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to ‘Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,’ then your body says, ‘Who me?’
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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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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 played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.
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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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When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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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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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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