The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.
-Reggie Jackson
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
-Reggie Jackson
Please God, let me hit one. I’ll tell everybody you did it.
-Reggie Jackson
October: that’s when they pay off for playing ball.
-Reggie Jackson
I didn’t come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me.
-Reggie Jackson
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
-Reggie Jackson
The only reason I don’t like playing in the World Series is I can’t watch myself play.
-Reggie Jackson
I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don’t care.
-Reggie Jackson
The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
-Reggie Jackson
The only way I’m going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.
-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
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
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
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
I’d like to be able to light the fire a little bit.
-Reggie Jackson
When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it’s like you’ve thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.
-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 don’t mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.
-Reggie Jackson
You know, this game’s not very much fun when you’re only hitting .247.
-Reggie Jackson
I got to be very close to Gene as a player and after I retired, … I think I probably stayed in closer contact with him than most.
-Reggie Jackson
I don’t know that you can. Of course, it all depends on what they find.
-Reggie Jackson
Certainly, I think about the impact that Jackie Robinson had. Jackie, I hope, will be smiling. I hope his wife will be smiling.
-Reggie Jackson
For your club to win, … you have to pull the chain, and the rest of your club has to be right behind. That’s what the special ones do.
-Reggie Jackson
God do I love to hit that little round sum-bitch out of the park and make ’em say ‘Wow!’
-Reggie Jackson
Here’s what you have to understand these days about George. I stood 30 feet from him, and he didn’t know who I was.
-Reggie Jackson
His tank was empty. He did what he could do.
-Reggie Jackson
He’s going to get bigger and stronger and hit with more power when he fills out more. He’ll have a lot more confidence.
-Reggie Jackson
I think it’s something that’s born. He’s got an easy style about him. … He’s got a lot of talent, and he’s only going to get better.
-Reggie Jackson
I think he’s closer to 100 than he is 90.
-Reggie Jackson
That’s a tough question. I know you’re right, but I don’t know the answer.
-Reggie Jackson
We have a lot of females who volunteer as a coach. Our girls who play see that.
-Reggie Jackson
This team, it all flows from me. I’ve got to keep it going. I’m the straw that stirs the drink.
-Reggie Jackson
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.
-Reggie Jackson
I’ve seen a little bit of it. But I don’t know that I’m interested.
-Reggie Jackson
I used to dream how good it would be to be Willie Mays or Mickey Mantle. My dreams have died. Even the rotten rings aren’t what they’re supposed to be. I’ll buy my own diamonds. I can afford it now. No one gives you anything, you’ve got to get it for yourself.
-Reggie Jackson
Sometimes, you get into bad habits, … He has what we call a nice behind-the-ball swing, a nice inside move. We’re just trying to get him to work more on that. If we can get him to co-sign that, we’ll be all right.
-Reggie Jackson
Perhaps for one night, … I reached back and achieved that level of the overrated superstar. Babe Ruth was great. I’m just lucky.
-Reggie Jackson
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is
-Reggie Jackson
Alex needs a championship. You’re not great if you don’t win one, and it doesn’t matter how much money you make.
-Reggie Jackson
You can’t help but see it every day. You get to the ballpark and the batting average is on the scoreboard.
-Reggie Jackson
Ask for help, and I do believe you will get it. I do look for you to become engaged, and I do look for the Yankees to respond to your request, if you look them in the eye and ask.
-Reggie Jackson
I told him, as long as you have a bat in your hand, you can rewrite the story. Instead of just talking to a writer, you can write the story.
-Reggie Jackson
For me, I knew he was prepared to do his job as the manager and I was going to get a full, best effort from the manager of the team,
-Reggie Jackson
For a certain amount of money, you’ll eat Alpo.
-Reggie Jackson
Take care of the things you can control. As long as you have a bat in your hand, you can rewrite the story.
-Reggie Jackson
Not only is he going to hit .320 and 20 or 25 home runs, he might lead the league in hitting,
-Reggie Jackson
I liked his concern about discipline, his concern about style, about how you went about playing. I needed all that to make me feel comfortable.
-Reggie Jackson
I just was concerned about him being OK.
-Reggie Jackson
I only know about teamwork. I’ve been around it my entire life and I still work for a team. I look for the Yankees to respond to your requests when you look them in the eye and ask them.
-Reggie Jackson
I just told him what my father used to tell me. As long as you have a bat in your hand, you can re-write the story.
-Reggie Jackson
Hip dislocation, or whatever you call it, is minor compared to what I would have expected because I think he’s closer to 100 than he is to 90.
-Reggie Jackson
If I had my mother’s name, there is no doubt that I would have run into problems in those days, the prejudices people had in Southern California.
-Reggie Jackson
People think I hate Billy Martin. I don’t. I hate some of the things he did. And I will say I don’t understand him. Billy Martin is not an intellectual, but there is a cunningness to him that is something to behold.
-Reggie Jackson
The will to win is worthless if you don’t get paid for it.
-Reggie Jackson
The reason I’m a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.
-Reggie Jackson
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 what it feels like when Nolan Ryan’s thrown balls by you.
-Reggie Jackson
There’s a manager (Billy Martin) I could play for.
-Reggie Jackson
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.
-Reggie Jackson
Home run hitters strike out a lot.
-Reggie Jackson
I’m the straw that stirs the drink.
-Reggie Jackson
Babe Ruth was great. I’m just lucky.
-Reggie Jackson