I'm a private kind of person.
I can't find a job. It makes me crazy.
I love the game and I wanted to continue playing. It came to a time that I had to stop.
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.
If you look at some of the people in the Hall of Fame, my numbers are compatible.
If they're going to pay me like [Mike] Gallego, I'm going to play like Gallego.
Listen: People are always saying, 'Rickey says Rickey. ' But it's been blown way out of proportion. People might catch me, when they know I'm ticked off, saying, 'Rickey, what the heck are you doing, Rickey?' They say, 'Darn, Rickey, what are you saying Rickey for? Why don't you just say, 'I?' But I never did. I always said, 'Rickey,' and it become something for people to joke about.
I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.
I have come to know that adversity really means the things in life that challenge us and cause us to work with devotion and courage to overcome. I once stood on a street in Trondheim, Norway, looking up at a statue of a Viking. There came to my mind at that time a fable of the Norsemen that when a man won a victory over another, the strength of the conquered went over into his veins. Therefore, in this sense adversity is good, for it produces in us a source of strength as we learn to conquer our weaknesses.
I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.
This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing grave damage to the rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial executions.