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

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

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.

I have always had fun playing the game of baseball because I loved it so much.

May the Lord‘s purpose for my life be fulfilled in Jesus name. Amen.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.

Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.

Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders.

It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.