People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.

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.

Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

Having done several of them and also loving other kinds of movies, I'm also tougher on suspense stories in terms of finding one that really excites and surprises me.

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.

It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.

. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death