At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
JOE DIMAGGIOThe test of an outfielder’s skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!
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If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I’d have to say, ‘George, you and I are about to become partners.’
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The absolute worst thing a person can say about your pictures is, ‘”That’s nice.” It’s the kiss of death.
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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.
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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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There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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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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Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
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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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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 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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Just two words: a masterpiece.
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I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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