 Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky. |
| October, that's when they pay off for playing ball. |
| I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit. |
| 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. |
| The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color. |
| 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. |
| The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint. |
| 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 greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. |
| Fans don't boo nobodies. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that. |
| I am the best in baseball. |
| The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it. |
