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.
JOE DIMAGGIOWhen 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.
JOE DIMAGGIOI no longer have it (desire to play).
JOE DIMAGGIOAt my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
JOE DIMAGGIOWe need a hit, so here I go.
JOE DIMAGGIOAfter I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.
JOE DIMAGGIOYou 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?’
JOE DIMAGGIOI can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn’t know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.
JOE DIMAGGIOIt’s got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
JOE DIMAGGIOI’m proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.
JOE DIMAGGIOYou ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you’re down.
JOE DIMAGGIOAll pitchers are born pitchers.
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 want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
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 DIMAGGIOThere’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
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.
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