Joe DiMaggio was a well-known American baseball center fielder with the nicknames Joltin’ Joe and The Yankee Clipper. Throughout his 13-year MLB career, he was a member of the New York Yankees. And he is regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time, with a 56-game hitting streak that has stood the test of time.
Moreover, he is a three-time Most Valuable Player Award winner and an All-Star. When he was with the Yankees, he helped them win 10 American League pennants and nine World Series championships.
He retired in 1951, and at the time, he has ranked fifth in lifetime home runs and sixth in career slugging percentage. The years ticked by, and he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1995. He is best remembered for his devotion to Marilyn Monroe. You may get the top 18 quotations from the same baseball star, Joe DiMaggio, that can assist you.
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“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
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“A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.”― Joe DiMaggio
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“I’d like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.”― Joe DiMaggio
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“I think there are some players born to play ball.”― Joe DiMaggio
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“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
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“There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.”― Joe DiMaggio
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“When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.”― Joe DiMaggio
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“All pitchers are born pitchers.”― Joe DiMaggio
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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
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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
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“I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.”― Joe DiMaggio
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“Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.”― Joe DiMaggio
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“Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.”― Joe DiMaggio
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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?’”― Joe DiMaggio
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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.”― Joe DiMaggio
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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.”― Joe DiMaggio
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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.”― Joe DiMaggio
