Fans don't boo nobodies.
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.
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.
When people push back on you and don't think you can do it, and you struggle a little bit and wonder if they're right, it drives you to be successful and to be a great player.
I never had an understanding of Billy Martin. I did not accept the way he managed me. I did not accept the way he managed Ken Holtzman. I thought there was anti-Semitism there.
I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me.
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.
I didn't see Kirby Puckett as a Hall of Famer. I didn't see Gary Carter as a Hall of Famer. I didn't see Don Sutton as a Hall of Famer. I didn't see Phil Niekro as a Hall of Famer. As much as I like Jim Rice, I'm not so sure he's a Hall of Famer.
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!
I do everything as honestly as I can. I give all I have to give. But I don't let people get in my way.
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.
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 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.
Billy Martin was a human tragedy, in the real sense of the words.
You can play football and be the next Jim Brown or play baseball and be the next Reggie Jackson.
Hitting is better than sex.
I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit.
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
