Branch Rickey Quotes - Page 2

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• I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Football, Invasion

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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.

  Branch Rickey

  Courage, Children, Want

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• The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.

  Branch Rickey

  Simple, World, Ignored

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• Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Shoes, Ideas

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• A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Men, Swings

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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.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Selfish, Past

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• A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

  Branch Rickey

  Player, Chance, Take A Chance

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• He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.

  Branch Rickey

  Ability, Situation, Bad Situations

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• The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.

  Branch Rickey

  War, Civil War

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• A full mind is an empty bat.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Mind, Bats

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• Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

  Branch Rickey

  Mean, Stealing, Offense

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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.

  Branch Rickey

  Change, Baseball, Years

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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.

  Branch Rickey

  School, Doctors, Law

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

  Branch Rickey

  Player, Years, Too Late

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

  Branch Rickey

  Leisure Activities, Use, Problem

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• Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

  Branch Rickey

  Thinking, Vision, Devil

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• Branch Rickey made me a better man.

  Branch Rickey

  Men, Branches, Made

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• Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.

  Branch Rickey

  Men, Infinite, Capacity

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• Baseball is a game of inches.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Games, Inches

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.

  Branch Rickey

  Opportunity, Design, Luck

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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.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Team, Player

  Branch Rickey (1965). “The American diamond: a documentary of the game of baseball”

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• Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Boys, Want

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• When (Rube) Waddell
  had control and some sleep, he was unbeatable.

  Branch Rickey

  Sleep, Unbeatable

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• Luck is a residue of design.

  Branch Rickey

  Design, Luck

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• Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

  Branch Rickey

  Devil, Leisure

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