Fans don't boo nobodies.

I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me.

Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

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.

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

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.

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.

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.

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.

Hitting is better than sex.

I am the best in baseball.

I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.

I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit.

October, that's when they pay off for playing ball.

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.