Joe DiMaggio Quotes

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

I am full of a sense of promise, like I often have: the feeling of always being at the beginning.

The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.

People ask me if I live each day like it's my last, and I don't. I live each day like it's my first, and I can't wait for the next one.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had - it's a fresh start.

I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.

Pretty much any day is a good day to go to the ballpark, but that first day of the season is special. It's spring. The grass is green. Pessimism is impossible - at least, until the other team scores.

My emotions are strong when I start the season.

I think for a lot of people, when you're starting something new, everyone is so excited about it.

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me.

What I love best in life is new starts.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

I have plenty to look forward to, I'm sure.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.