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23 quotes by Reggie Jackson

MLB debut June 9, 1967 for the Kansas City Athletics Last MLB appearance October 4, 1987 for the Oakland Athletics Career statistics Batting average .262 Hits 2,584 Home runs 563 Runs batted in 1,702 Teams Kansas City / Oakland Athletics (1967–1975) Baltimore Orioles (1976) New York Yankees (1977–1981) California Angels (1982–1986) Oakland Athletics (1987) Career highlights and awards 14× All-Star (1969, 1971–1975,...
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Fans don't boo nobodies.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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?... →

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

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

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Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

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