Joe Dimaggio Quotes

I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments, but I'm most proud of that (hitting four-hundred home runs and three-thousand hits). Not (Ted) Williams, not (Lou) Gehrig, not (Joe) DiMaggio did that. They were Cadillacs and I'm a Chevrolet. ~ Carl Yastrzemski

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

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

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

It was in the open market that we found Joe DiMaggio with the San Francisco Seals. A bad knee had scared everybody else off DiMaggio. But we risked $25,000 in cash and five players, and landed a star whom I would not sell for $250,000. ~ Jacob Ruppert

There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the very best I ever saw. ~ Stan Musial

The first good player I watched as a kid was Joe DiMaggio, and that was like ballet. Since then, I played sandlot and college ball and came to understand how difficult it can be. ~ Mario Cuomo

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

I thought he had been shot. ~ Joe DiMaggio

I think there are some players born to play ball. ~ Joe DiMaggio

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

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

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

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

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

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century. ~ Mickey Mantle

Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio. ~ Paul Simon

I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio)
wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem, if he wanted to do that. He was my hero. Joe
was the best all-around player. Joe
was the best. I only played against him once, in the '51 Series. ~ Willie Mays

SHE WAS JUST LIKE OUR WHOLE COUNTRY - NOT QUITE YOUNG ANYMORE, BUT NOT OLD EITHER; A LITTLE BREATHLESS, VERY BEAUTIFUL, MAYBE A LITTLE STUPID, MAYBE A LOT SMARTER THAN SHE SEEMED. AND SHE WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING - I THINK SHE WANTED TO BE GOOD. LOOK AT THE MEN IN HER LIFE - JOE DIMAGGIO, ARTHUR MILLER, MAYBE THE KENNEDYS. LOOK AT HOW GOOD THEY SEEM! LOOK AT HOW DESIRABLE SHE WAS! THAT'S WHAT SHE WAS: SHE WAS DESIRABLE. SHE WAS FUNNY AND SEXY - AND SHE WAS VULNERABLE, TOO. SHE WAS NEVER QUITE HAPPY, SHE WAS ALWAYS A LITTLE OVERWEIGHT. SHE WAS JUST LIKE OUR WHOLE COUNTRY, ~ John Irving

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. ~ Joe DiMaggio

Just two words: a masterpiece. ~ Joe DiMaggio

I want to thank all my teammates who scored so many runs and Joe DiMaggio, who ran down so many of my mistakes. ~ Lefty Gomez

Putting the Yankee uniform on every day. ~ Joe DiMaggio

I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth. ~ Tommy Lasorda

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

I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous. ~ Lefty Gomez

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

Joe DiMaggio was the greatest all-around player I ever saw. His career can not be summed up in numbers and awards. It might sound corny, but he had a profound and lasting impact on the country. ~ Ted Williams

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. ~ Joe DiMaggio

There was an aura about him (Joe DiMaggio). He walked like no one else walked. He did things so easily. He was immaculate in everything he did. Kings of State wanted to meet him and be with him. He carried himself so well. He could fit in any place in the world. ~ Phil Rizzuto

We need a hit, so here I go. ~ Joe DiMaggio

Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing. ~ Roger Maris

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

I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink. ~ Casey Stengel

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. ~ Joe DiMaggio

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

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 ~ Joe DiMaggio

I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field. ~ Yogi Berra

Joe DiMaggio batted safely in 56 consecutive games in 1941, the same season Ted Williams batted .406 - but did you know that also in 1941, Jeff Heath, an outfielder who spent a decade playing for the Indians, became the first player in AL history to hit 20 doubles, 20 triples, and 20 home runs in the same season? It's true. ~ Tucker Elliot

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

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.' ~ Joe DiMaggio

Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do. ~ Cal Ripken, Jr.

That's– (Guard)
Wait. Out. Side. (Joe)
(Guard leaves)
Thanks. Can't wait for the walk back. You guys specialize in something other than acid enemas? (Steele) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Logic has never been idealism's strong suit. Every time I'd pointed out some inequity in our realtionship to Joe, something as basic as who had first dibs on the car, he said, "What are you going to do? Call NOW?" as he drove away, laughing. He thought the National Organization of Women was a joke, and feminism itself hysterically funny. It wasn't funny. It was nothing less than self-determination. It's what, in the end, we were all after. Me, Margo, Howie, Joe. We wanted equality. We wanted justice. We wanted not to be controlled by the world as it was. ~ JoeAnn Hart

Exactly so!" called Skifr. "I daresay this tight-lipped Vansterman knows battle. How did you get that scar, my dove?"
"I was milking a reindeer and she fell on me," said Fror. "She was ever so sorry afterward, but the damage was done" And Brand wondered if he winked his misshapen eye.
"Truly a hero's mark, then," grunted Thorn, curling her lip.
Fror shrugged. "Someone must bring in the milk. ~ Joe Abercrombie

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop. ~ Joe Slovo

Don't forget to balance optimism with fact and belief with reality. ~ Joe Kraus

Books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality. ~ Joe Queenan

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations. ~ Joe Biden

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

When a self-evident truth is presented, don't surprised when self-centeredness fights back... ~ Joe Matlock

Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the subway, or who do not want other people to see how they are amusing themselves, or who have storage and clutter issues, but they are useless for people who are engaged in an intense, lifelong love affair with books. Books that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on. ~ Joe Queenan

I always look for ... hopefully look for a challenge. And you're always looking for the next summit to hit. Even if it's a personal one. It needn't be some great sense of monumental ... It just has to be important to you and big enough and special enough and individual enough that you get up for it. And that can be anything. ~ Joe Carnahan

The general with the smallest numbers should remain always on the offensive. ~ Joe Abercrombie

Are you sure I can't have just one little teeny tiny drink now?" I bat my eyelashes, but Joe just laughs. Laughs! Maybe my flirter is broken. ~ Kristen Proby

Joe Chiles referred to Pierson's condition, and ~ T.J. Hanson

It is a different world, the underground. When you hit mainstream, you hit a saturation level and that turns some people off. When you are on more low-key stuff, it works to your advantage and it creates a buzz on the streets. At that point, the sky is the limit. ~ Joe Budden

And we were all of us alone, clinging to a rock spinning through the star-strewn darkness and trying desperately to matter. To make some sort of everlasting mark, however true or awful that mark may be. Spinning endlessly alone - until we're not alone, and we stumble into someone else trying to mark the chaos, and we cling tighter to that person than we ever have to the world itself. That spark in another, that resonation of the soul - a counterpoint in the dark - was more real and more important than the earth beneath our feet. ~ Joe Ducie

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view. ~ Joe Biden

When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music. ~ Lykke Li

The more you like a girl, the less she likes you. It's like fucking scientific."
"What about you and Kim?"
"That's what I'm talking about, little dude. If I start being nice and acting cool and saying things
and being on time, she starts acting, you know, fucking uninterested. But if I act like a total dick, then
she calls me all the fucking time. It's fucking crazy, because I really like her and all, but when I say
nice shit to her, she gets all freaked out and says she needs some fucking space and all. So I just act
like I don't give a shit, you know? It's all part of God's plan," he said, nodding. ~ Joe Meno

An open mind is like to an open wound. Vulnerable to poison. Liable to fester. Apt to give its owner only pain. ~ Joe Abercrombie

The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda ~ Joe Bageant

I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs. I mean, the Brad Paisley's, Alan Jackson especially, even Taylor Swift - those people can really pen great stuff. ~ Joe Nichols

How does this text fit into the whole Bible? How does it ultimately connect to the gospel of Jesus? ~ Joe Hoagland

What can't be cured must be endured. ~ Pat Mills

I've always thought the pre-Revolutionary system was more elegant, but it did concentrate too much power in the hands of one person. Keyes says that at least you knew who the man was then. The person who represents a Lobby in Congress is never the one who makes the real decisions; the real leaders are rarely identifiable and are never held responsible for their actions. If a puppet gets in trouble they sacrifice him and haul out another. I don't doubt that that's true, at least some of the time, but it's certainly not the whole story. If a Lobby consistently acts against the public interest, its voting power dwindles away. Keyes says that's a cynical illusion: all the polls reflect is how much money a Lobby has put into advertising. ~ Joe Haldeman

Look at Israel. Israel is a great country for examples on how to do security. ~ Joe Arpaio

I will definitely be there again. I'm 145 right now. I fight at this weight because I'm a champion here and I love Bellator. When I came into Bellator, it was their second season and we did not have bantamweight yet ... I believe in my future and that I'll be a bantamweight. ~ Joe Warren

I believe the president wants this bill, and I know he's taken some steps to bring it about, ... The reality is that with a majority of the members of the House ready to vote for this bill, the speaker refused to call a roll call. ~ Joe Lieberman

Children are gleeful barbarians. ~ Joe Morgenstern

I travel a lot on foreign policy, as you know. I'm in Europe a lot. I travelled over a million miles as vice president. They didn't do stimulus. Look where they are. Come on. I mean, this is like, I just get so frustrated. Like come on. ~ Joe Biden

Today was opening day for the new Congress in Washington. And Vice President Joe Biden swore in the new batch of White House fence jumpers. ~ David Letterman

every fictional world was a work of fantasy, and whenever writers introduce a threat or a conflict into their story, they create the possibility of horror. He had been drawn to horror fiction, he said, because it took the most basic elements of literature and pushed them to their extremes. All fiction was make-believe, which made fantasy more valid (and honest) than realism. He ~ Joe Hill

Everything I do in my life is very aggressive. ~ Joe Arpaio

Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more. ~ Dawn Powell

To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Develop a cause beyond yourself. Try to leave the world a better place because you were here. ~ Joe Ehrmann

I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines. ~ Madeleine Stowe

In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him. ~ Joe Biden

True deduction can only be obtained through a certain amount of self annihilation. ~ Joe Riggs

You can have, do, or be anything you want. ~ Joe Vitale

I don't take acting classes - I'm quite an autodidact. I prefer to learn from other actors by watching various movies. Evaluate my acting, spot the flaws and fix them. ~ Joe Taslim

How I wished all my problems were just a piece of cake. Eat it entirely and then it's all gone. ~ Joe Mari Fadrigalan

Martial arts are a vehicle for developing your human potential. ~ Joe Rogan

Nuclear weapons kill Americans - they don't kill Republicans or Democrats - they kill Americans. ~ Joe Wilson