Rickey Henderson Quotes About Baseball

Quotes about: Baseball

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

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Running, Safe

• Today I am the greatest of all time.

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Today, All Time

  Rickey Henderson, John Shea (1993). “Off Base: Confessions of a Thief”, Harpercollins

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

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Home, Oakland

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

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Dirty, Games

• 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.

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Book, Honor

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

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Play, Calling

  "Rickey Henderson A Steal for the Mets" by Tim Marchman, www.nysun.com. July 13, 2007.

• 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.

  Rickey Henderson

  Mom, Baseball, Dirty

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Eye, Body

• 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.

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Player, Games

  Interview with Donald Marquez, www.athleticsnation.com. May 7, 2012.

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

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Retirement, Retiring

  "A Rickey Reunion?". Interview with Susan Slusser, www.sfgate.com. May 18, 2007.

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

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Fun, Games

  Interview with Donald Marquez, www.athleticsnation.com. May 7, 2012.

• 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.

  Rickey Henderson

  Mom, Baseball, Football

  Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Speech, delivered 26 July 2009, Cooperstown, OH

• 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.

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Father, Athlete

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