Rickey Henderson a candid conversation with baseball's ace lead-off man about billy and george, hustling and hot-dogging and making smoke on the base paths
"When I was a little-leaguer, Mom always used to say, 'If you don't come home
dirty, you didn't play a baseball game.' So I always tried to slide so that I
could go home dirty. That's why I started stealing bases."
"Billy's problem was that he was a diehard Yankee--that team was his heart and
soul, his love; everything was the Yankees. When he went to a bar, if
somebody said, 'Hey, Martin, the Yankees suck,' he'd fight him."
"People get pissed off about the money players make. But if they're out there
producing like superstars, they deserve the money. Players who just get by
and earn as much as the superstars--they're the guys who are overpaid."
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