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Branch Rickey
American
Athlete
About the author
How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.
Branch Rickey,
American
Athlete
#Time
#Leisure
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
Branch Rickey,
American
Athlete
#Devil
#Leisure
Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
Branch Rickey,
American
Athlete
#Trade
Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.
Branch Rickey,
American
Athlete
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
Branch Rickey,
American
Athlete
#Thinking
#Devil
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
Branch Rickey,
American
Athlete
#Man
The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
Branch Rickey,
American
Athlete
#History
#Race
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
Branch Rickey,
American
Athlete
#Problems
#Progress
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,
American
Athlete
#Baseball
#First
#Spirit
#Rules
Never surrender opportunity for security.
Branch Rickey,
American
Athlete
#Security
#Opportunity
#Surrender
Luck is the residue of design.
Branch Rickey,
American
Athlete
#Luck
#Design
All I had was natural ability.
Branch Rickey,
American
Athlete
#Ability
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,
American
Athlete
#Want
#Children
#Strength
#Respect
#Failure
#Courage
#Fault
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
Branch Rickey,
American
Athlete
#Chance
#Will
It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.
Branch Rickey,
American
Athlete
#Honor
Baseball is a game of inches.
Branch Rickey,
American
Athlete
#Baseball
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,
American
Athlete
#People
#Years
#Baseball
#Ideas
#Numbers
#Change
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,
American
Athlete
#Day
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,
American
Athlete
#Baseball
#Truth
#Prejudice
#Sports
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,
American
Athlete
#Want
#Day
#Job
#Care
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,
American
Athlete
#Effort
#Pursuit
#Joy
#Zest
A full mind is an empty bat.
Branch Rickey,
American
Athlete
#Mind