Reggie Jackson Quotes

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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 how you feel when [Nolan] Ryan's throwing balls by you.

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

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

Reggie Jackson
I was 'colored' until I was 14, a Negro until I was 21 and a black man ever since.

Reggie Jackson
Guys who play there [Japan] say it gets awfully lonely. Hell, for the money they're talking, I can buy some friends and take them with me.

Reggie Jackson
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
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
Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.

Reggie Jackson
People think I hate Billy Martin. I don't. I hate some of the things he did. And I will say I don't understand him. Billy Martin is not an intellectual, but there is a cunningness to him that is something to behold.

Reggie Jackson