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.
JOE DIMAGGIOYou 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.
JOE DIMAGGIOA 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.
JOE DIMAGGIOAt my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
JOE DIMAGGIOBaseball 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 DIMAGGIOI think there are some players born to play ball.
JOE DIMAGGIOIf 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 DIMAGGIOThe 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.
JOE DIMAGGIOI’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
JOE DIMAGGIOI thought he had been shot.
JOE DIMAGGIOThe absolute worst thing a person can say about your pictures is, ‘”That’s nice.” It’s the kiss of death.
JOE DIMAGGIONow 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.
JOE DIMAGGIOJust two words: a masterpiece.
JOE DIMAGGIOToo many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
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.
JOE DIMAGGIOThe test of an outfielder’s skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.
JOE DIMAGGIOThere’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
JOE DIMAGGIO