Quotes by Joe Dimaggio - Page 1

I thought he had been shot.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Baseball
Shots
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We need a hit, so here I go.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Hit
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Just two words: a masterpiece.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Masterpiece
Two
Yankees
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All pitchers are born pitchers.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Born
Pitcher
Yankees
Pitchers
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I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Actor
Ballplayer
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I no longer have it (desire to play).
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Desire
Play
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It's great to be young and be a Yankee!
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
New York Yankees
Yankees
Young
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Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
New York Yankees
Uniforms
Yankees
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I think there are some players born to play ball.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Sports
Baseball
Player
Ball
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It's got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
New York Yankees
Pages
Yankees
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I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Famous Baseball
Yankee Stadium
Yankees
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When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Sports
Baseball
Fun
Longer
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I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Good
Lord
Like
Me
Good Me Like
Good Lord
Making
Thank
Yankee
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There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
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There's always some youngster coming up- they'll find somebody.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
New York Yankees
Yankees
Youngsters
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At my age, I'm just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Cases
New York Yankees
Yankees
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Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Sports
Babe
Play
Ruth
Thrill
Except
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Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Kids
Sports
League
Major League
Ball
Belong
Major
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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Inspirational
Life
Best
Baseball
Example
Natural
Person
Just
Always
Best Always Doing
Best Doing Person
Becomes
Best Always Person
Doing
Best Doing Always
Her
His
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After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Bigs
League
Ready
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There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Kids
Best
Children
First Time
May
Seeing
Swimming
Time Always Me
Best Time Me
Best Time May
First
Him
Owe
Some
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The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Baseball
Skills
Tests
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You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you're down.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Running
Guy
Worst
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I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Everyday
May
Play
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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.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Kissing
Nice
Worst
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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.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Sports
Clubs
Produce
Stage
Teammate
Teammates
Club
Longer
Manager
Reached
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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.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Inspirational
Motivational
Sports
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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.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Success
Sports
Play
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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 / Baseball Player
Asking
Kind
Soft Drinks
Me Remember Know
Reporter
Quote
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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.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Family
Sports
Baseball
Boys
Hungry
Player
Rich
Boy
Ball
Ball Player
Big Leagues
Leagues
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I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Ambition
Any Other Way
Played
Ball
Club
Help
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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.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Kids
Play
Want
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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.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Baseball
Drinking
Sleep
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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?'
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Motivational
Running
Baseball
Brain
Chasing
Peg
Your Body
Brain Me Body
Start Your Me
Brain Your Me
Ball
Bend
Commands
Forward
Immediately
Says
Scoop
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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.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Sports
Baseball
Meaningless
Romantic Love
Sound
Since
Ball
Bat
Crack
Hears
Meeting
Motion
Phrase
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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.'
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Salary
Sitting Down
Statistics
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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.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Birthday
Smile
Sports
Baseball
Birthday Party
Matter
Opening
Opening Day
Party
Special
Wonderful
Forward
Happen
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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.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Kids
Sports
League
Big Leagues
Helped
How Much
Leagues
Minute
Practiced
Wants
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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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Home
Men
Yankees
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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.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Bed
Team
Winning
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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.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Desire
Giving
Motivation
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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.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Thinking
Yankees
Years
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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.
Joe Dimaggio / Baseball Player
Baseball
Fun
Pain
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