Joe Dimaggio

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

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.

I'm proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.

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

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

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

When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.

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