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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.

Joe DiMaggio

After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.
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After Big Country Hit League Page People Peron Ready
At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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Age Anything Greatest Happy Just Living My Name
Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
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Ball Belong Kid League Major Many Play Today Too
You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to ‘Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,’ then your body says, ‘Who me?’
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Ball Bend Body Chase Command Enfiled Forward Immediately Peg Run Scoop Start
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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Bat Before Crack Long Meaningless Motion Outfielder Phrase Romantic Since Totally
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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Baseball Blood Get Hit Into Kock Really Streak Until
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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Championship Famer Five Pennant Potential Six Team Win
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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Always Down Least Look never Person Play Seen Stand Thought Want
There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
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Center Nobody Take Until Up
A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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Become Best Doing Example Leader Natural Person
Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
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Accept Country Everything People Person Play Thrill Watch
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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Apologize Cab Driver Guy Later Over Serious Thirty Years
It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!
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Great Young
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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Give Motivation Nobody Else Something
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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Always Day Get Go How Kick Many Matter No Open Special Through
You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you’re down.
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Feel Hardest Ought Run Worst

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