Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
JOE DIMAGGIOI 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.
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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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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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 baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
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Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
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I 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.
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Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
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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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All pitchers are born pitchers.
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I no longer have it (desire to play).
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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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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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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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There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
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