Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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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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At my age, I'm just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
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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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Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.
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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
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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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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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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.
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There's always some youngster coming up- they'll find somebody.
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It's got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
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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.
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All pitchers are born pitchers.
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I think there are some players born to play ball.
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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.
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I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.
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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?'
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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
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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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There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
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I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.
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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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I no longer have it (desire to play).
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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.
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The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.
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I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
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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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It's great to be young and be a Yankee!
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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.
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We need a hit, so here I go.
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Just two words: a masterpiece.
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