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.
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
-
-
The absolute worst thing a person can say about your pictures is, ‘”That’s nice.” It’s the kiss of death.
JOE DIMAGGIO -
Just two words: a masterpiece.
JOE DIMAGGIO -
I think there are some players born to play ball.
JOE DIMAGGIO -
You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you’re down.
JOE DIMAGGIO -
We need a hit, so here I go.
JOE DIMAGGIO -
I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
JOE DIMAGGIO -
A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
JOE DIMAGGIO -
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.
JOE DIMAGGIO -
I no longer have it (desire to play).
JOE DIMAGGIO -
All pitchers are born pitchers.
JOE DIMAGGIO -
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 DIMAGGIO -
When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
JOE DIMAGGIO -
In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
JOE DIMAGGIO -
After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.
JOE DIMAGGIO -
There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
JOE DIMAGGIO