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.

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

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future.

It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.

I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it.

Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.

'I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive...

If you are a conservative you can never get anything wrong. I was very proud of the fact that I didn't get anything wrong that I said during the course of the debates.

Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.