I love talking about baserunning.

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.

Euphemisms persist because lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

My darling boy whom I shall never know, My son, I love you in my deepest fears.

People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.

Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.

Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

There exists no more democratic institution than the market

Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.

Television and the way we watch is going to change dramatically in the next year.

Anytime you have a thought, for example, that excludes someone, if you have a religion that excludes someone, then you've really left God behind, and you've really left your source energy behind.