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Reggie Jackson
Profession : Athlete
Birth : May 18, 1946
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Ken Holtzman could pitch a game in ninety minutes. Wouldn't throw a breaking ball. And he had a great breaking ball.
Reggie Jackson
The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.
Reggie Jackson
When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.
Reggie Jackson
Do you have any idea what Ali meant to black people? He was the leader of a nation, the leader of Black America. As a young black, at times I was ashamed of my color; I was ashamed of my hair. And Ali made me proud.
Reggie Jackson
If you can't see the rotation and tell if it's a sink - a fastball, then you have to be able to tell whether that fastball is a two-seamer or a four-seamer. You have to be able to recognize if it's a slider or a curveball. You have to be able to recognize if it's a changeup or a split-finger.
Reggie Jackson
If I played today, I'd stay in trouble. I'd be in the commissioner's office all the time, I guess. I'd be everywhere - including where I wasn't supposed to be.
Reggie Jackson
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
Reggie Jackson
I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.
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
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.
Reggie Jackson
October, that's when they pay off for playing ball.
Reggie Jackson
The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.
Reggie Jackson
The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.
Reggie Jackson
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
Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.
Reggie Jackson
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.
Reggie Jackson
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.
Reggie Jackson
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.
Reggie Jackson
When I hit, I felt I was in control of the home-plate area, and it was important that I felt that way. If I let the pitcher control it, it would give him an advantage.
Reggie Jackson
When I stepped into the box, I felt the at-bat belonged to me. Everybody else was there for my convenience. The pitcher was there to throw me a ball to hit. The catcher was there to throw it back to him if he didn't give me what I wanted the first time. And the umpire was lucky that he was close enough to watch.
Reggie Jackson
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