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
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. Thats why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues. – 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 youre a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen. – Joe DiMaggio
A ball player has got to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That is why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues. – Joe Dimaggio
To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love. – Williston Fish, "A Last Will," 1898