Reggie Jackson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.”

“I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit.”

“October, that's when they pay off for playing ball.”

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

“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.”