Joe DiMaggio Quotes

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

Fun, Game, 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.
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Sports, Birthday, Forward

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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Family, Made, Why

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

Forward, Brain, Start

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

Best, Person, Leader

There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
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Time, Best, May

I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.
Joe DiMaggio

Good, Making, Lord

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

Romantic, Long, Before

All pitchers are born pitchers.
Joe DiMaggio

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

Thought, Remember, Drink

I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.
Joe DiMaggio

Stage, Longer, Manager

I think there are some players born to play ball.
Joe DiMaggio

Play, Born, Players

I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.
Joe DiMaggio

Actor, Ballplayer

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

Help, Win, Give

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

Family, Made, Why

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

Everything, Play, Except

Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.
Joe DiMaggio

Today, Kids, Playing

We need a hit, so here I go.
Joe DiMaggio

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: November 25, 1914

Died: March 8, 1999

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