I was stealing all the bases, and when you had to go to arbitration they said, 'You know, only the big boys make the money.' So I got to try and figure out how to hit a home run, too.

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.

When two broken hearts meet, they find their missing part in each other.

She listens closely to the silence as though the sounds just beneath the surface are awaiting to release the significance of a moment.

No person can walk all alone because to walk all alone one must have no memories at all from the past!

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow.

I have loads of stuff that never came out because I really don't think it's good enough.

It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.