A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.
Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you.
Fans don't boo nobodies.
Hitting is better than sex.
I am the best in baseball.
I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.
I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me.
I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.
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.
I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.
I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit.
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.
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.
October, that's when they pay off for playing ball.
Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.
The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.
The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.
The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.
The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.
When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.
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.
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.
You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.
Reggie is a fluent speaker of Spanish.
Reggie holds the record for the most home runs hit in a single World Series game. He hit three in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series.
Reggie holds the honor of being the last Kansas City Athletics player to play in a Major League Baseball game.
Reggie was named to 14 All-Star teams during his baseball career.
Reggie's career slugging percentage was .490.
In 1999, The Sporting News came out with a list of the the 100 greatest baseball players of all time. Reggie was 48th on that list.
In his 21 seasons in the major leagues, Reggie made the post-season 11 times, winning six pennants and five World Series.
Reggie batted .300 only once in his career. He accomplished this feat in 1980.
Reggie was the first the Yankees player to hit a home run into the black-painted hitter's eye in center field of the newly renovated Yankee Stadium.
Reggie won the 1973 American League MVP Award.
Reggie hit two historic home runs at Tiger Stadium (former home of the Detroit Tigers): in the 1971 All-Star Game, he hit a homer over the right field stands that struck the transformer of a light standard on the roof, and in 1984, he hit a home run over the same roof.
Reggie graduated from Cheltenham High School in Wyncote, Pennsylvania in 1964. While attending the school, Reggie starred in baseball and football.
Reggie played baseball for 20 years as a right fielder.
You can share a link to this page with your friend!