I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.
I have always had fun playing the game of baseball because I loved it so much.
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.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
I'm pretty athletic, but I'm not very strong.
When money follows results - we will get more results for our money
I would you say 25-50 percent is the likelihood that my cause of death will be suicide. Not because I am depressive but because I don't attach any moral baggage to suicide, and I have no religion to hold me back. I think suicide is our right, though I think we need to exercise it with knowledge that it can hurt others. So my assumption is that if I got a fatal disease, I'd end things before I got really sick.