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Reggie Jackson Quotes

Type:
Athlete Quotes
Category:
American Athlete Quotes
Date of Birth:
May 18, 1946
Nationality:
American
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Reggie Jackson

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

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

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.
Reggie Jackson

Fans don't boo nobodies.
Reggie Jackson

Hitting is better than sex.
Reggie Jackson

I am the best in baseball.
Reggie Jackson

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

I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.
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

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

I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit.
Reggie Jackson

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

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

October, that's when they pay off for playing ball.
Reggie Jackson

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

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

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.
Reggie Jackson

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.
Reggie Jackson

The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.
Reggie Jackson

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

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

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

You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.
Reggie Jackson


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