Quotes from Dick Allen

If horses can't eat it, I won't play on it.

If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it.

Jet Magazine May 3, 1982: Dick "Richie" Allen, who is serving as a Texas Rangers batting instructor, revealing why his sights are set higher than the Hall Of Fame: "The Hall Of Fame? I ain't interested in the Hall Of Fame. Heaven, that's what I'm aiming for. You don't need any votes to get into heaven.

You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives, The crackle of their funeral pyres,

Once upon a time, there was a Zen sign at every small railway crossing in America Stop. Look. And listen.

The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected.

Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rock If you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy, maybe you can grasp it.

itt was snowing as if you could hear wolves howling

I just take my three swings and go sit on the bench. I don't ever want to mess up my swing.