When you're a kid, you want to be a millionaire.

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.

There is no singular truth known to man. All that we know is but a fraction. Truth can only be seen in pieces.

Nothing shakes the smiling heart.

The unfolding over time of a great idea is like the growth of a fractal crystal, allowing details and refinements to multiply endlessly — but only in ever-increasing scale.

To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!

What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.

Before I go out on the field every day, I tell myself, 'You are having fun, and you want to set a good example to those who are watching.

By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.

Question everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom.

Religion is not in fault.

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.