Quotes

“I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.” Joe DiMaggio

“There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.” Joe DiMaggio

“When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.” 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.” Joe DiMaggio

“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.” Joe DiMaggio

“You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'” Joe DiMaggio

“All pitchers are born pitchers.” Joe DiMaggio

“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.” Joe DiMaggio

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

“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

“I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.” Joe DiMaggio

“We need a hit, so here I go.” Joe DiMaggio

“If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.” Joe DiMaggio

“Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.” Joe DiMaggio

“I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.” Joe DiMaggio

“I think there are some players born to play ball.” Joe DiMaggio

“I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.” Joe DiMaggio

“My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.” Tina Turner

“Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything... whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.” Tina Turner

“I don't hate myself anymore. I used to hate my work, hated that sexy image, hated those pictures of me onstage, hated that big raunchy person. Onstage, I'm acting the whole time I'm there. As soon as I get out of those songs, I'm Tina again.” Tina Turner

“My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.” Tina Turner

“For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.” Tina Turner

“I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.” Tina Turner

“I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.” Tina Turner

“As I grew up, I learned what worked for me. That's where the short dresses came from. And you can't dance in a long dress.” Tina Turner

“I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.” Tina Turner

“I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.” Tina Turner

“I believe in prayer and in strong belief.” Tina Turner

“I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.” Tina Turner

“I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!” Tina Turner