Reggie Jackson Quotes

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

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  Tags in Hitting

• 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.

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  Tags in Against, Face

• 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.

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  Tags in Played, Game

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

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  Tags in Pitch, Beautiful

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

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  Tags in Win

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

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  Tags in Reason, Playing

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

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  Tags in Difference, Skin

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

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  Tags in Manager

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

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  Topics in God

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

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  Tags in Payoff

• 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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  Tags in Building, Live

• 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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  Tags in Human, Player

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

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  Tags in Able

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

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  Tags in Reminded, Care

• 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

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  Tags in Trouble

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

  Reggie Jackson

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  Tags in Beaten, Lose

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

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  Tags in Come, Star

• I am the best in baseball.

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  Tags in Best

• Hitting is better than s*x.

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  Tags in Hitting

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

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  Tags in Great, Lucky

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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