If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.

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

Lou Brock was a great base stealer but today I am the greatest.

I don't want to be one of those great players who never made it to the Series.

You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.

If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.

Even the slowest guy can go from first to third and help win a ballgame.

I did so many things that made me a threat.

I don't think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game.

I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.

I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first.

I love the game and I wanted to continue playing. It came to a time that I had to stop.

I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very exciting to me.

I'm a Hall of Famer and I'm still fighting for it because I love the game and I love to play.

I'm disappointed about how my career ended.

Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant?

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.

My impact on the game was going out there and making things happen.

My journey as a player is complete.

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

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

Rickey don't like it when Rickey can't find Rickey's limo.

Rickey got a big ranch. Rickey got a big bull. Rickey got horses. Rickey got chickens and everything. And Rickey got a 20-gallon hat.

Somehow, I've been blessed to be able to have the young spirit inside - not feel like every year I get a year older. I feel like every year I get a year younger. I don't wake up in the morning with aches and pains.

The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.

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

To me the most important thing was stirring things up and scoring some runs so we could win a ballgame.

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

You never had the opportunity to play with some of the great ballplayers, but being that close around them, and being in the same category, was a great feeling, to feel that vibe of all the best players who played the game.

The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

Baseball is a team game.

I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.