Joe DiMaggio Quotes

Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.'

At my age, I'm just happy to be named the greatest living anything.

There's always some youngster coming up- they'll find somebody.

I thought he had been shot.

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.

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

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

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.

There's nobody taking center from me until I give it up.

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

In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.

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.

We need a hit, so here I go.

I think there are some players born to play ball.

It's got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.

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.

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