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

The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.

Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

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

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

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.