Rickey Henderson Quotes about Baseball

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

This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.

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

When I was a little-leaguer, I was sort of famous for stealing bases - and it started only because my mom wanted to be sure where I was in the afternoons. Mom always used to say, "If you don't come home dirty, you didn't play a baseball game." So I always tried to get in a situation where I had to slide so that I could go home dirty.

Today I am the greatest of all time.

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

It's always exciting that you can rub elbows with some of the greatest players who have ever played the game, and just being around the "family" again from baseball.

It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.

In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

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.

Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.

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.