Reggie Jackson Quotes
The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.
Hitting is better than sex.
I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It`s a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they`re losing money.
The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
October, that`s when they pay off for playing ball.
When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it`s like you`ve thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.
The only reason I don`t like playing in the World Series is I can`t watch myself play.
In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.
You don`t face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He`s the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.
I`d like to be able to light the fire a little bit.
I don`t mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.
Please God, let me hit one. I`ll tell everybody you did it.
I`m human and I`ve played my butt off for ten years. I`m not a loafer, I`m not a jerk, I`m a baseball player.
I am the best in baseball.
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
Fans don`t boo nobodies.
I didn`t come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me.
Babe Ruth was great. I`m just lucky.
When you`ve played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you`ve gone zero for five-thousand.
The only way I`m going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.
You know, this game`s not very much fun when you`re only hitting .247.
I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don`t care.
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
