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I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.
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.
The way things are going the faces on next year's bubble-gum cards will be lawyers.
Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick.
Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.
The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.
I am the best in baseball.
Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.
Hitting is better than sex.
Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.
The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.
The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.
True success is one of the greatest needs. Success is not something you stumble onto or come to by accident. It is something you must sincerely prepare for. Take a good look at successes, and you'll see he same consistent qualities all the time - qualities of one's character that make one strive for a goal with a standard of unmatched excellence.
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
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.
So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.
When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.
Fans don't boo nobodies.
I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.
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.
When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.
