Reggie Jackson Quotes

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

Fans don't boo nobodies.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

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.

Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.

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.

Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.

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.

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 am the best in baseball.

The only way I'm going to get a gold glove is with a can of spray paint.

It's a fickle town, a tough town. They getcha, boy. They don't let you escape with minor scratches and bruises. They put scars on you here.

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

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 way things are going the faces on next year's bubble-gum cards will be lawyers.

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 with beautiful clarity.

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 didn't come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me.

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.

The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.

There's a manager (Billy Martin) I could play for.

Home run hitters strike out a lot.

I work for ABC television I have my own syndicated TV series. I've been on the cover of 'Time Magazine' and on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated' five times.