I 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.
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.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
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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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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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If 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.
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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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I thought he had been shot.
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There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
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I think there are some players born to play ball.
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I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.
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Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
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The 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.
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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.
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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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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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Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
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