Rickey Henderson, the Man of Steal, who appropriately told the world after setting baseball’s stolen base record that he was “the greatest of all time”, died on Saturday. He was 65 years old. No cause was announced at the time of his death.

The Baseball Hall of Famer scored more runs and swiped more bags than anyone else in the history of the sport, playing 25 seasons after breaking in with the A’s in 1979. Henderson helped win two World Series championships, including the 1989 championship with the Oakland Athletics. Henderson also played with nine teams in his career including the Yankees and the Mets.

Henderson holds the career record for stolen bases with 1,406. He stole more than 100 bases in three seasons, and his 130 in 1982 is still the single-season record. Henderson also scored 2,295 runs including 81 leadoff home runs — both records. His 2,190 walks rank him second behind Barry Bonds.

Henderson wasn’t always beloved. With his braggadocio leading the way anywhere he went, he was hardly a celebrated figure in baseball during the 1980s. His demands for pay raises of, at first, $500,000 to keep up with baseball’s ever-increasing income left fans and media alike to label him greedy.

The A’s traded Henderson twice, but four different times, Henderson used his free agency to return to Oakland. “They have a very colorful uniform,” Henderson claimed to have said, explaining why he kept returning to the A’s.