Zitat des Tages von Reggie Jackson:
I am the best in baseball.
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.
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.
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
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.
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.
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.
I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me.
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.
I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit.
I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.
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.
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.
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.
October, that's when they pay off for playing ball.
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!
The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.
This is what happens when you get old and have a couple of bucks. You go back and try to be young again.
The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.
When you hit a player in the head, you're more apt to get some fisticuffs or, you know, bring both teams out on the field, but it was more accepted that - in the '50s, '60s and '70s. I think nowadays it's a little over-policed because I will always believe that knocking a hitter down, even hitting a hitter at, sometimes, is part of baseball.
If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.
The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.
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!
The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.
Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.
The mini-series 'The Bronx is Burning' thoroughly embarrassed me the way the story was told.
I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.
You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.
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.
Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.
Billy Martin was a human tragedy, in the real sense of the words.
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.
I know I never saw Casey Stengel when I was being scouted. And how could you be in a ballpark and not know if Casey Stengel was there?
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.