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- Nov 07, 2020
Reggie Jackson Quotes
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- Finely
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- Nov 07, 2020
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
- Baseball History
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
- Baseball
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the best in baseball.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.
- Figuring
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Butt
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
October, that's when they pay off for playing ball.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hitting is better than sex.
- don't Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ken Holtzman could pitch a game in ninety minutes. Wouldn't throw a breaking ball. And he had a great breaking ball.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to home plate in a game-tied situation or with a chance to do something and help the ballclub win one, I'd try to make eye contact with the pitcher.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was with the Yankees in 1978, we were playing Baltimore at Yankee Stadium, and the score was 3 - 3 going into the bottom of the ninth inning. I led off against Tippy Martinez - a little left-hander who always gave me trouble - and the count went to three-and-oh.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody in the league knew I had trouble with the inside pitch. I got away with it only because the great majority of pitchers were afraid of making a mistake in that spot. The threat of power is one of the best weapons you have in the batter's box.
- Batter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I hit, I felt I was in control of the home-plate area, and it was important that I felt that way. If I let the pitcher control it, it would give him an advantage.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I stepped into the box, I felt the at-bat belonged to me. Everybody else was there for my convenience. The pitcher was there to throw me a ball to hit. The catcher was there to throw it back to him if he didn't give me what I wanted the first time. And the umpire was lucky that he was close enough to watch.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm tired of hearing people say 'Reggie Jackson needs New York, needs the media, needs the attention.' I've always gotten it whenever I wanted it.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a businessman. I bring my bat and glove and attache case to the office and go to work. I don't give a damn if the other workers at the office like me or not.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do everything as honestly as I can. I give all I have to give. But I don't let people get in my way.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I probably hit 35 balls into the right-field bleachers.
- Basketball
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know how hard it is to shoot the basketball, so I've got great appreciation for it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody's got a Reggie story.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been able to hear and read what I say before I say it. That's why I'm a good quote. Or a good interview. If I say something that's uncomfortable for someone's ears, it's going to be the truth; I just happen to voice it. But it's the truth. It's not my opinion.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Misconception Number 1, the public always thought, 'Reggie has a massive ego; he's narcissistic, he's cocky, he needs everyone to look at him all the time,' because that's what the media told them. Wrong. I could handle the attention. I didn't let the attention affect my performance. But I never needed the attention.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is what happens when you get old and have a couple of bucks. You go back and try to be young again.
- Era
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- Nov 07, 2020
No. No, no, no, no, Blyleven wasn't even the dominant pitcher of his era - it was Jack Morris.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't see Kirby Puckett as a Hall of Famer. I didn't see Gary Carter as a Hall of Famer. I didn't see Don Sutton as a Hall of Famer. I didn't see Phil Niekro as a Hall of Famer. As much as I like Jim Rice, I'm not so sure he's a Hall of Famer.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lee May's about the same age as me; he's got about the same stats. So how come he's making about one-eighty, two hundred thousand, and I'm the best damn paid player in the game? I'll tell you why: Because I put the meat in the seats!
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can play football and be the next Jim Brown or play baseball and be the next Reggie Jackson.
- Stay
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I played today, I'd stay in trouble. I'd be in the commissioner's office all the time, I guess. I'd be everywhere - including where I wasn't supposed to be.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't accept the racial epithets in reference to players like Elliott Maddox or Billy Sample.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020