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Fans don't boo nobodies.
I am the best in baseball.
Hitting is better than sex.
Home run hitters strike out a lot.
I'm the straw that stirs the drink.
Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.
Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.
I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.
There's a manager (Billy Martin) I could play for.
I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit.
October: that's when they pay off for playing ball.
October, that's when they pay off for playing ball.
Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.
I probably hit 35 balls into the right-field bleachers.
If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.
The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.
Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.
I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.
Billy Martin was a human tragedy, in the real sense of the words.
I didn't come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me.
I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me.
You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.
The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.
The only way I'm going to get a gold glove is with a can of spray paint.
The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.
The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.
The way things are going the faces on next year's bubble-gum cards will be lawyers.
I know how hard it is to shoot the basketball, so I've got great appreciation for it.
The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.
I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.
Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.
The mini-series 'The Bronx is Burning' thoroughly embarrassed me the way the story was told.
No. No, no, no, no, Blyleven wasn't even the dominant pitcher of his era - it was Jack Morris.
You can play football and be the next Jim Brown or play baseball and be the next Reggie Jackson.
I couldn't accept the racial epithets in reference to players like Elliott Maddox or Billy Sample.
The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
This is what happens when you get old and have a couple of bucks. You go back and try to be young again.
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
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.
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.
Ken Holtzman could pitch a game in ninety minutes. Wouldn't throw a breaking ball. And he had a great breaking ball.
When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.
Nature is extremely important to me. Which may be just about the only trouble I'll have in New York. I'll miss the trees!
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
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 am not merely a baseball player. I am a black man who has done what he wants, gotten what he wanted, and will continue to get it.
I know I never saw Casey Stengel when I was being scouted. And how could you be in a ballpark and not know if Casey Stengel was there?
I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it
It's a fickle town, a tough town. They getcha, boy. They don't let you escape with minor scratches and bruises. They put scars on you here.
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.