I don't think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game.

I like playing for Oakland, they have a very colorful uniform.

Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.

My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.

You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.

Rickey doesn't have albums, Rickey has CDs.

If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.

Rickey don't like it when Rickey can't find Rickey's limo.

I can't find a job. It makes me crazy.

Rickey was never motivated by stats. He was motivated by numbers. Wins, runs, steals.

I told myself that if I ever make it to the big leagues that I would be the one to appreciate the fans. Take a little time out to sign autographs and shake their hands and say hello to them.

Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Don't only dream it, live in it.

Train yourself by blessing those who treat you badly and you will take on the nature of God.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

We are all alike, on the inside.

A national movement, which does not include in its platform the demand for an economical change advantageous to the masses has no chance of success unless supported by foreign aid.

Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.

Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place

You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!