Fans don't boo nobodies.
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
I am the best in baseball.
I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit.
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.
October, that's when they pay off for playing ball.
Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.
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.
When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there 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.
Hitting is better than sex.
I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.
Ken Holtzman could pitch a game in ninety minutes. Wouldn't throw a breaking ball. And he had a great breaking ball.
If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.
I am not merely a baseball player. I am a black man who has done what he wants, gotten what he wanted, and will continue to get it.
I know how hard it is to shoot the basketball, so I've got great appreciation for it.
Everybody's got a Reggie story.
I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.
The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.
You can play football and be the next Jim Brown or play baseball and be the next Reggie Jackson.
I couldn't accept the racial epithets in reference to players like Elliott Maddox or Billy Sample.
I know I never saw Casey Stengel when I was being scouted. And how could you be in a ballpark and not know if Casey Stengel was there?
Billy Martin was a human tragedy, in the real sense of the words.
For the most part, we came out and competed and we definitely made them feel us.
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.
The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
