All pitchers are born pitchers.
JOE DIMAGGIOI 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.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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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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There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
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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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You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you’re down.
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We need a hit, so here I go.
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I thought he had been shot.
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It’s got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
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I no longer have it (desire to play).
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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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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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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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I think there are some players born to play ball.
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I’m proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.
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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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