I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.

It's just baseball. You always expect every team to go through this at one time or another.

This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.

It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.

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.'

Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.

Today I am the greatest of all time.

You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.