"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

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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.

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