Rickey Henderson was inducted into the baseball hall of fame last weekend.  I’m not going to lie, Rickey was a great player.

He’s got over 3,000 hits, he holds the stolen base record.  I think if someone let him play right now he would, and of course, he rocked the jheri curl.

But the best part about Rickey Henderson is the fact that he always referred to himself in the third person.  He also said some of the craziest stuff ever.  That means that a Rickey Henderson quote is UvT quality and pure gold.  Check these out:

A reporter asked Henderson if Ken Caminiti’s estimate that 50 percent of Major League players were taking steroids was accurate. His response was, “Well, Rickey’s not one of them, so that’s 49 percent right there.”  Nice math Rickey.

Rickey also brings the logic.

A reporter once asked Rickey if he talked to himself, “Do I talk to myself? No, I just remind myself of what I’m trying to do. You know, I never answer myself so how can I be talking to myself?”

The story went that a few weeks into Henderson’s stint with the Mariners, he walked up to John Olerud at the batting cage and asked him why he wore a batting helmet in the field. Olerud explained that he had an aneurysm at nine years old and he wore the helmet for protection. Legend goes that Henderson said, “Yeah, I used to play with a guy that had the same thing.”

Legend also goes that Olerud said, “That was me, Rickey.”

To this day and dating back 25 years, before every game he plays, Henderson stands completely naked in front of a full length locker room mirror and says, “Ricky’s the best,” for several minutes.

Sheeeit, I do that every morning too.

No matter what he does, Rickey goes hard though.

He really is the best right now.

-Brock