From The Old Man and the Sea:

“But I must have confidence and I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone spur in his heel” (68).

“But I think that the great DiMaggio would be proud of me today. I had no bone spurs. but the hands and the back hurt truly” (97).

“Do you believe that the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as long as I will stay with this one” (68)?

“I would like to take the great DMaggio fishing,” the old man said. “They say his father was a fisherman.  Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand” (22).

“I wonder how the great DiMaggio would have liked the way I hit him in the brain” (103-104)?