It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!
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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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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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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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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I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.
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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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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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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.
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We need a hit, so here I go.
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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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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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I no longer have it (desire to play).
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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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After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.
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