My impact on the game was going out there and making things happen.

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.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

What doesn't draw you into a Coen Bros. movie. It's amazing. I can't believe it! They're the Coen Bros. It's ridiculous.

I know that my race must change.

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

Having something like an Australia points-based system means we control immigration and bring in the skills that we need.

Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play, the thing you choose to do.

Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.