Reggie Jackson Quotes (43 Quotes)

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

Jackson gave a better explanation later, anyway. He has a good move to the ball, ... He has the ability to pull the ball. He has the ability to hit the ball to leftfield. And he doesn't have enough power to get too far off the track.

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 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.

Certainly, I think about the impact that Jackie Robinson had. Jackie, I hope, will be smiling. I hope his wife will be smiling.

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

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.

Alex needs a championship. You're not great if you don't win one, and it doesn't matter how much money you make.

He's got a violent move, hell bent for leather. What does that mean Go watch Sheffield swing. He's always too quick. He gets a little ahead of himself. I told him as long as you have a bat in your hand, you can rewrite the story. You have the bat in your hand, you have the last say.

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

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.

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.

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

We have a lot of females who volunteer as a coach. Our girls who play see that.

I am the best in baseball.

Fans don't boo nobodies.

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.

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

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

Hitting is better than sex.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

For a certain amount of money, you'll eat Alpo.

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

That's a tough question. I know you're right, but I don't know the answer.

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

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.

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.

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

Take care of the things you can control. As long as you have a bat in your hand, you can rewrite the story.

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

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

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

God do I love to hit that little round sum-bitch out of the park and make 'em say 'Wow'

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.

Perhaps for one night, ... I reached back and achieved that level of the overrated superstar. Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

This team, it all flows from me. I've got to keep it going. I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

You can't help but see it every day. You get to the ballpark and the batting average is on the scoreboard.