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Quotes by Branch Rickey

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
– Branch Rickey
Baseball is a game of inches.
– Branch Rickey
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
– Branch Rickey
Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.
– Branch Rickey
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
– Branch Rickey
How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.
– Branch Rickey
I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.
– Branch Rickey
I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good.
– Branch Rickey
I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.
– Branch Rickey
I don't like the subtle infiltration of 'something for nothing' philosophies into the very hearthstone of the American family. I believe that 'Thou shalt earn the bread by the sweat of thy face' was a benediction and not a penalty. Work is the zest of life; there is joy in its pursuit.
– Branch Rickey
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
– Branch Rickey
If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
– Branch Rickey
It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.
– Branch Rickey
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
– Branch Rickey
Let's not get panicky.
– Branch Rickey
Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself, but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of a hit-and-run.
– Branch Rickey
Never surrender opportunity for security.
– Branch Rickey
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
– Branch Rickey
Our pitching staff is a conspiracy of ifs.
– Branch Rickey
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
– Branch Rickey
The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
– Branch Rickey
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
– Branch Rickey
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
– Branch Rickey
This ball - this symbol; its it worth a whole man's life?
– Branch Rickey
Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.
– Branch Rickey
Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
– Branch Rickey
Luck is the residue of design.
– Branch Rickey