American - Athlete | May 18, 1946 -
The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.
Reggie Jackson
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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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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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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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You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.
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Hitting is better than sex.
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I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.
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The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
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When I went to home plate in a game-tied situation or with a chance to do something and help the ballclub win one, I'd try to make eye contact with the pitcher.
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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.
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Everybody in the league knew I had trouble with the inside pitch. I got away with it only because the great majority of pitchers were afraid of making a mistake in that spot. The threat of power is one of the best weapons you have in the batter's box.
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There are at least three kinds of advantages that the pitcher and batter contest. There's the physical advantage, the strategic advantage, and also the psychological advantage. I didn't want two out of three. I wanted them all.
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