The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.
My impact on the game was going out there and making things happen.
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.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.
I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.
We have all had times. . . when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there. . . . [I]t is in the valley where we live for the glory of God.