Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio
Joseph Paul DiMaggio, nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "the Yankee Clipper", was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career for the New York Yankees. He is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak, a record that still stands...
kids swimming firsts
There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
thinking yankees years
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.
motivation giving desire
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.
play desire
I no longer have it (desire to play).
baseball leader example
A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
inspirational thinking want
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.
age
At my age, I'm just happy to be named the greatest living anything.