Reggie Jackson Quotes

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie.

I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

If I wasn't an actor, I probably would've tried to get a job with the Braves.

Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica.

I played good ball in the minor leagues, and that's why they called me up to the major leagues.

The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

Obviously we can't do what we do if no one is paying attention.

In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.

When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

When people say, 'I don't see you enough,' well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist, or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.

I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.

I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.

I'm now the hitting the instructor with the Cleveland Indians.

I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are.

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too.

They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.

Career highlights? I had two - I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.