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| Joe Dimaggio
"A ball player's got to be kept hungry to become a big-leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.""I never saw a young ball player who had so much equipment. This is his fifth year, isn't it? Well, if he doesn't come big this year, I'm afraid he never will. Five years is time enough for anybody.""I no longer have it.""I think the greatest change [in baseball] has come with the disappearing of the minor leagues. Expansion, of course, has caused this; but too many kids today are playing major-league ball and don't belong there.""I think there are some players who are born to play ball.""I told you fellows last spring I thought this would be my last year. I only wish I could have had a better year. But even if I had hit .350, this would have been the last year for me.
"You all know I have had more than my share of physical injuries and set-backs during my career. In recent years these have been much too frequent to laugh off. When baseball is no longer fun it's no longer a game.
"And so, I've played my last game of ball.""I'd like to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee.""I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.""I'm just a ball player 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.""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.""If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I'd have to say, `George, you and I are about to become partners.' ""It's got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.""Mr. Barrow, there is only one answer to that - Mr. Gehrig is terribly underpaid.""No outfielder is a real workman unless he can turn his back on the ball, run his legs off and take the catch over his shoulder. Backpedaling outfielders get nowhere.""Now I've had everything except the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.""She's a plain kid. She'd give up the business if I asked her. She'd quit the movies in a minute.""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.""There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first or last time. I owe him my best.""There is no trick to catching a ball in the open field, no matter how far it is hit, as long as it stays in the air long enough. The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.""There's always some youngster coming up - they'll find somebody . . .""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."... all pitchers are born pitchers."A ball player has got to be kept hungry be become a big leaguer. That is why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.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. 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.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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