Joe DiMaggio Quotes

• It’s no fun being married to an electric light.

  Joe DiMaggio

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• There’s no skill involved. Just go up there and swing at the ball.

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

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• We need a hit, so here I go.

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• Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.

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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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• 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.

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• Pair up in threes.

  Joe DiMaggio

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

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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

• 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.

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• I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.

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• I’d like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.

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

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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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• 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

• All pitchers are born pitchers.

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

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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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Birth:	25th November, 1914
Death:	8th March, 1999
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Player

About

Joseph Paul DiMaggio, nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper" was born in Martinez, California, USA. He was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career for the New York Yankees. He is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak, a record that still stands. He was a three-time MVP winner and an All-Star in each of his 13 seasons. He is also widely known for his marriage and lifelong devotion to Marilyn Monroe. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955.

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