Joe DiMaggio Quotes

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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

Motivation, Giving, Desire

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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

Play, Everyday, May

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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

Joe DiMaggio

Inspirational, Life, Baseball

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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

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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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

Running, Guy, Worst

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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

Children, Kids, Swimming

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I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee

Joe DiMaggio

Yankees, Yankee Stadium, Famous Baseball

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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

Kids, Play, Want

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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

Asking, Soft Drinks, Kind

Quoted in Bert Sugar, Book of Sports Quotes (1979)

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When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.

Joe DiMaggio

Sports, Baseball, Fun

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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Birthday, Sports, Baseball

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

Family, Sports, Baseball

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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At my age, I'm just happy to be named the greatest living anything.

Joe DiMaggio

Age

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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

Sports, Kids, League

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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, Drinking, Sleep

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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

Success, Sports, Play

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Just two words: a masterpiece.

Joe DiMaggio

Yankees, Two, Masterpiece

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We need a hit, so here I go.

Joe DiMaggio

Needs

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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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Sitting Down, Salary, Statistics

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I think there are some players born to play ball.

Joe DiMaggio

Sports, Baseball, Player

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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

Sports, Baseball, Romantic Love

Joe DiMaggio (2017). “BASEBALL FOR EVERYONE - A Treasury of Baseball Lore and Instruction for Fans and Players”, p.149, Edizioni Savine

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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.

Joe DiMaggio

Home, Men, Yankees

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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, Skills, Tests

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

Thinking, Yankees, Years

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Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

Joe DiMaggio

Sports, Play, Thrill

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Born: November 25, 1914
Died: March 8, 1999
Occupation: Baseball player
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