"I don't want to be one of those great players who never made it to the (World) Series." Source: AP Wire (1989)

"If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game." Source: Widely Attributed

"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." Source: The Sporting News (September 4, 1989)

"Lou Brock was a great base stealer but today I am the greatest." Source: Widely Attributed

"Has he ever been here (Spring Training) the first day? You have to say Rickey's (Henderson) consistent. That's what you want in a ballplayer - consistency." - Don Mattingly

"I did a lot of study and I found that it's impossible to throw Rickey Henderson out. I started using stopwatches and everything. I found it was impossible to throw some other guys out also. They can go from first to second in 2.9 seconds; and no pitcher catcher combination in baseball could throw from here to there to tag second in 2.9 seconds, it was always 3, 3.1, 3.2. So actually, the runner that can make the continuous, regular move like Rickey's can't be thrown out and he's proven it." - Charlie Metro

"Some people have asked me whether or not Rickey Henderson belonged in the Hall of Fame. I've replied "if you could somehow split him in two, you'd have two Hall of Famers"" - Author Bill James in The Bill James Handbook (2008)

Quotes from & About Rickey Henderson