Branch Rickey Quotes
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I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.
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How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.
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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.
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I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good.
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We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.
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If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
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Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.
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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 the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day.
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These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down those standards which have stood in such good stead in crises that are past. Baseball cannot be selfish, or irresponsible, or lax. Neither can the men who operate it.
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A full mind is an empty bat.
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Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
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He's the best prospect I've ever seen.
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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.
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Success is that place in the road where preparation meets opportunity.
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It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.
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The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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There never has been a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than Robinson.
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Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.
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I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an honorary Doctor of Laws. So, would somebody please tell me why I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean.
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Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it.
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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.
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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.
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First of all, a man, whether seeking achievement on the athletic field or in business, must want to win. He must feel that the thing he is doing is worthwhile; so worthwhile that he is willing to pay the price of success to attain distinction.
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I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of substance, statesman, business leaders, the clergy... So why do I spend my time arguing with Dizzy Dean?
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Don't look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
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Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.
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He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitudes. Luck is the residue of design.
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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.
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