106 Quotes by Rickey Henderson

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

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

I patterned myself after Reggie Jackson. I wanted to have that same swing and hit some homeruns. When I was down in A-ball, I was trying to be Reggie Jackson and I was striking out all the time. And I was like, 'This isn't the way Reggie is doing it, so I got to change.'

I'm already in the (record) books three or four times.

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.

I'm disappointed about how my career ended.

If you look at some of the people in the Hall of Fame, my numbers are compatible.

I don't want to be one of those great players who never made it to the (World) Series.

I was stealing all the bases, and when you had to go to arbitration they said, 'You know, only the big boys make the money.' So I got to try and figure out how to hit a home run, too.