Reggie Jackson Quotes

I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

The hits and the misses. I just want to keep the at-bats solid.

My average against hitters is pretty good.

You're not going to hit a bunch of three-run homers every game.

Game after game, year after year, you never stop thinking about the balls you get your hands on and don't catch.

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

I'm going to consistently hit anywhere between .290 and .310. Anything above that, I'm catching breaks and finding holes.

I believe that you're a hitter first and you're a slugger second type deal.

I don't go up there and try to hit home runs.

I consider Billy Keeler, Mike Tiernan, Ed Delihanty and Larrie La Joie the toughest hitters I had to pitch to, but I did not dread them. Remember, Hughie Duffy was a member of our team, so I did not face him. In my opinion, Duffy was the greatest hitter.

My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone.

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.

I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.

Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.

When you don't get hits it's depressing.

I'll be the first one to admit I had some bad at-bats. But I've had periods where I've struck out four times and then struck out four times again. It only takes one swing to get out of it.

That's where my focus is all the time, trying to get on base.

I don't care about the home runs as much as just being consistent and RBIs.

Who would people rather see, a real hitter hitting home runs or a pitcher swinging a wet newspaper?

I always try to have some good at-bats. Home runs come once in a while; that's good.

I came up as a number 2 hitter. My first year I hit 16 homers, and I was like, Whoa, I'm rollin'!

I don't know what my numbers are as a DH, but the fact that you're sitting basically for three hours and 38 minutes of a baseball game, you're hoping you get four or five at-bats.