Words matter. These are the best Reggie Jackson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
When people push back on you and don’t think you can do it, and you struggle a little bit and wonder if they’re right, it drives you to be successful and to be a great player.
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.
The pitcher has the ball, and nothing happens until he lets go of it. So as the batter, I felt I had to fight for any bit of control I could get. I expected the umpire, the catcher, and the pitcher to wait on me. I wanted to get ready on my time.
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.
Please God, let me hit one. I’ll tell everybody you did it.
There’s a certain time that when somebody asks you a question, you answer them. I don’t think I said anything with venom. If you can express yourself without anger and make it as palatable as you can, that’s what you do.
I never had an understanding of Billy Martin. I did not accept the way he managed me. I did not accept the way he managed Ken Holtzman. I thought there was anti-Semitism there.
Being a superstar… can make life very difficult, difficult to grow. So I like to visit with my friends, listen to some fine music, drink some good wine, perhaps take a ride in the country in a fine car, or… just walk along the beach.
The mini-series ‘The Bronx is Burning’ thoroughly embarrassed me the way the story was told.
Billy Martin was a human tragedy, in the real sense of the words.
Babe Ruth was great. I’m just lucky.
When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it’s like you’ve thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.
Do you have any idea what Ali meant to black people? He was the leader of a nation, the leader of Black America. As a young black, at times I was ashamed of my color; I was ashamed of my hair. And Ali made me proud.
Nature is extremely important to me. Which may be just about the only trouble I’ll have in New York. I’ll miss the trees!
If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
There is no question that in the ’50s and ’60s, black players got thrown at more. That’s not a negative comment. It may come out that way, but that’s the way it was. Hitting another player was part of the game; hitting a player in the head is not.
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.
The only way I’m going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.
Hitting is better than sex.
The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.
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.
Ali helped raise black people in this country out of mental slavery. The entire experience of being black changed for millions of people because of Ali.
There are at least three kinds of advantages that the pitcher and batter contest. There’s the physical advantage, the strategic advantage, and also the psychological advantage. I didn’t want two out of three. I wanted them all.
