Reggie Jackson famous quotes

03-25-2025

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

#Baseball #Swings #Littles
Fans don't boo nobodies.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Inspirational #Motivational #Sports
The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Sports #Baseball #Play
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Funny #Baseball #Mean
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

#Sports #Yankees #Yankee Stadium
I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it
-- Reggie Jackson

#Success #Failure #Adversity
Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Underestimate #Sometimes #Magnitude
True success is one of the greatest needs. Success is not something you stumble onto or come to by accident. It is something you must sincerely prepare for. Take a good look at successes, and you'll see he same consistent qualities all the time - qualities of one's character that make one strive for a goal with a standard of unmatched excellence.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Success #Sports #Character
I'm the straw that stirs the drink.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Yankees #Drink #New York Yankees
I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Sports #People #Care
So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Yankees #Ideas #Trying
Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Never Settle #Realizing #Settling
I'll tell you what makes a great manager: A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Believe #Thinking #Knack
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

#Sports #Zero #Mean
I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Hate #Mind #Beaten
Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Motivational #Baseball #People
If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.
-- Reggie Jackson

#New York #Yankees #Names
Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Baseball #Ice Cream #Mlb
Home run hitters strike out a lot.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Running #Perseverance #Home
Hitting is better than sex.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Sports #Baseball #Sex
I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Kids #People #Role Models
The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Sports #Winning #Will To Win
Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick.
-- Reggie Jackson

#School #Kids #Thinking
The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Sports #Thinking #Knack
The only way I'm going to get a gold glove is with a can of spray paint.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Baseball #Gold #Gloves
Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Sports #Inspirational Sports #Let Me
I didn't come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Sports #New York #Stars
When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.
-- Reggie Jackson

#Beautiful #Baseball #Lines

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