Reggie Jackson Quotes

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

  Reggie Jackson

  Topics in History, Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball

• Fans don’t boo nobodies.

  Reggie Jackson

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Fans

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

  Reggie Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball, Instrument

• Babe Ruth was great. I’m just lucky.

  Reggie Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Lucky

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

  Reggie Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Come, Star

• Hitting is better than s*x.

  Reggie Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hitting

• I am the best in baseball.

  Reggie Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best

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

  Reggie Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beaten, Lose

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

  Reggie Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reminded, Care

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Player

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Building, Live

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trouble

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

  Reggie Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Able

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

  Reggie Jackson

  Topics in God

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

  Reggie Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Payoff

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

  Reggie Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Difference, Skin

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

  Reggie Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason, Playing

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pitch, Beautiful

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Played, Game

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Against, Face

Reggie Jackson (23)

Birth:	18th March, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Player

About

Reginald Martinez "Reggie" Jackson is an American former baseball right fielder who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball for four different teams. He was nicknamed "Mr. October" for his clutch hitting in the postseason with the Oakland A's and the New York Yankees.

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