143 Quotes by Reggie Jackson

Take care of the things you can control. As long as you have a bat in your hand, you can rewrite the story.

Not only is he going to hit .320 and 20 or 25 home runs, he might lead the league in hitting,

I liked his concern about discipline, his concern about style, about how you went about playing. I needed all that to make me feel comfortable.

I just was concerned about him being OK.

I only know about teamwork. I've been around it my entire life and I still work for a team. I look for the Yankees to respond to your requests when you look them in the eye and ask them.

I just told him what my father used to tell me. As long as you have a bat in your hand, you can re-write the story.

Hip dislocation, or whatever you call it, is minor compared to what I would have expected because I think he's closer to 100 than he is to 90.

If I had my mother's name, there is no doubt that I would have run into problems in those days, the prejudices people had in Southern California.

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.