Branch Rickey Quotes

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• Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
• Never surrender opportunity to security.
• 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…
• Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.
• Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball,…
• A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
• 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…
• 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…
• He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
• How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.
• Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
• I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.
• I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good.
• 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…
• It (a baseball box score) doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in…
• If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
• 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.
• There was never a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than (Jackie) Robinson.
• The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
• Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

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