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.
JOE DIMAGGIOA 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.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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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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You 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.
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It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!
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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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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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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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We need a hit, so here I go.
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There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
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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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When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.
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I think there are some players born to play ball.
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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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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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I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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It’s got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
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