Reggie Jackson Quotes
"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."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: Baseball, Years)
"A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: Baseball, Repetition)
"After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: History, Baseball)
"Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky."
- Reggie Jackson
"Fans don't boo nobodies."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: Fans)
"Hitting is better than sex."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: Sex)
"I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me."
- Reggie Jackson
"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."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: Money, Time, Business, Athletes, Losing, Trouble)
"I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: People, Care)
"I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: Fire, Light)
"When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: Thought, Clarity)
"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."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: People, Building, Yankee)
"You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: Fun)
"I am the best in baseball."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: Baseball)
"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."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: Years)
"The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: Gold)
"The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: Play, Reason, World)
"The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: Difference, Skin)
"The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: Manager)
"Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: God)
"October, that's when they pay off for playing ball."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: October)
"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."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: Bed, Midnight, Rest)