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

Rickey don't like it when Rickey can't find Rickey's limo.

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.'

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

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.

If they're going to pay me like [Mike] Gallego, I'm going to play like Gallego.

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