To all the kids out there: Follow your dream. Believe in your dream. Because dreams do come true.

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.

...for life is magic, magic is life, the left-over life we don't even notice we're living.

Never be defined by what has happened to you in the past, it was just a life lesson, not a life sentence. ~ Donald Pillai

Endurance of life problems, spirit of survival.

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again.

We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are.

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.

Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society.

When we...go back in to the past and rake up all the troubles we've had, we end up reeling and straggering through life. Stability and peace of mind come by living in the moment.

For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?