Joe DiMaggio Quotes About Baseball

Quotes about: Baseball

• 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

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

  Joe DiMaggio

  Inspirational, Life, Baseball

• 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

  Birthday, Sports, Baseball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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.

• 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

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

  Joe DiMaggio

  Sports, Baseball, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I think there are some players born to play ball.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Sports, Baseball, Player

• 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.

• 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

• I thought he had been shot.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Baseball, Shots

• 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

  Motivational, Running, Baseball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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, Fun, Pain

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