Joe DiMaggio Quotes

I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.

The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.

My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.

I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.

I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too.

No! I won't rule out center field for the Yankees, either.

I have a very round mound of rebound thing going on. I was a surprisingly good shooter, too. If I could have any job in sports, though, I'd want to be playing first base for the Yankees.

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

The grass is always greener on the other side, unless Vince Russo has been there in which case the grass is most likely dead.

Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.

In my opinion, I've had the greatest job in the world. I got a chance to be the shortstop for the New York Yankees, and there's only one of those. And I always felt as though it was my job, was to try to provide joy and entertainment for you guys, but it can't compare to what you brought me. So for that, thank you very much.

We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.

Canzeroni is the only defensive catcher that can't catch.

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

I belong a Yankee. I'm really happy that I got the chance to sign a good contract, and really happy that I got the chance to stay with the Yankees. Going elsewhere, I was going to hear the offers, but the Yankees made it really tough.

I admit," Morgan said with another withering look, "it's no donut.

I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.

I couldn't be a White Sox fan because that was like being a Mets or a Yankees fan.

Enough no more; Tis not so sweet now as it was before.

I've seen that picture before. It was a two-seamer that didn't sink until it hit the upper deck somewhere.

Some days I feel like I'm only the fire hydrant to Westminster dog show.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

There were a handful of shows that were just painful. Not many, but things where I just said going into it, "Why am I here? What am I doing?"