Best 30 quotes of Joe Dimaggio on MyQuotes

After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.

All pitchers are born pitchers.

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

Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping.

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.

I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches an pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.

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

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.'

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.

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.

I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.

I thought he had been shot.

It's great to be young and be a Yankee!

I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee

Just two words: a masterpiece.

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.

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

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.

The absolute worst thing a person can say about your pictures is, '"That's nice." It's the kiss of death.

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.

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.

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

The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.

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

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

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.

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.

You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you're down.

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?'

The reporter asked, "why did you play so hard." "Because there might have been somebody in the stands today who'd never seen my play before, and might never see me again" -Joe DiMaggio