Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reggie Jackson

The only way I'm going to get a gold glove is with a can of spray paint.

Reggie Jackson

Hitting is better than sex.

Reggie Jackson

I am the best in baseball.

Reggie Jackson

Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.

Reggie Jackson

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

Tom Verducci

Why? Why should the bond between a people and their baseball team be so intense? Fenway Park is a part of it, offering a physical continuum to the bond, not only because Papi can stand in the same batter's box as Teddy Ballgame, but also because a son might sit in the same wooden-slat seat as his father.

Tom Verducci

Researchers measure that the average major-league pitcher puts 40 pounds of pressure on his shoulder by cocking and releasing the baseball. Curious how much more the body could take, those same researchers tested cadavers. The shoulder broke apart at just beyond 40 pounds.

Tom Glavine

Everything with me is normal except when I pitch (in Fenway Park). When I pitch here it's a little different. There is a little more anxiety to go along with the nostalgia because this is the park I grew up with as a kid. This is the park I dreamed of playing Major League Baseball in and no other ballpark has that feeling for me. There are a lot more family and friends here than in my normal starts and I want to pitch well here.

Tom Hanks

Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

Marianne Williamson

If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.

Mickey Mantle

Those people don't know how tough that really was.

Mickey Mantle

What did you say, Joe?

Mickey Mantle

If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.

Mickey Mantle

Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.

Mickey Mantle

There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.

Mickey Mantle

You hit .350 you're a leader. You hit .250 and you're not.

Mickey Mantle

I wanted to throw my glass at the TV.

Mickey Mantle

I never saw him fight. I never saw Billy fight.

Mickey Mantle

I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.

Mickey Mantle

I don't know why Roger (Maris) isn't in the hall of fame. To me, he was as good as there ever was.

Mickey Mantle

It's what you're worth.

Mickey Mantle

I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.

Mickey Mantle

The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.

Mickey Mantle

Well, I beat my man. Now it's up to you to beat yours.

Mickey Mantle

A body came flying out and landed at my feet. At first I thought it was Billy so I picked him up. But when I saw it wasn't I dropped him back down.

Mickey Mantle

It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face.

Mickey Mantle

Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything.

Mickey Mantle

Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?

Mickey Mantle

When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there.

Mickey Mantle

After they remodeled Yankee Stadium I didn't feel that the ghosts were there anymore. It just wasn't the same.

Mickey Mantle

It gave me a second chance. I'd like everybody to have a second chance if they need it, so I'm trying to let people know how important it is to become an organ donor.

Mickey Mantle

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.