A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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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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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Baseball 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.
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I think there are some players born to play ball.
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Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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We need a hit, so here I go.
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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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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 thought he had been shot.
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After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.
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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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The test of an outfielder’s skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.
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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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There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
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