I find nothing wrong with striving for the impossible. But I find alot wrong with giving up
Well, Rickey's not one of them, so that's 49 percent right there.
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'm just chatty. But I do express my opinion.
But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.
A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.
The people we call the prophets I think are the earliest dissident intellectuals, and they're treated like most dissident intellectuals - very badly. They're imprisoned, driven into the desert. King Ahab, the epitome of evil in the Bible, condemned Elijah as a "hater of Israel. " This is the first self-hating Jew, the origin of the term. It goes right up to the present. That's the history of intellectuals.