Famous Quotes / Branch Rickey
15 Quotations by Branch Rickey
- 1. A full mind is an empty bat.
- 2. A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
- 3. Baseball is a game of inches.
- 4. Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain ...
- 5. How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.
- 6. 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 ...
- 7. I don't like the subtle infiltration of 'something for nothing' philosophies into the very hearthsto ...
- 8. I mind is an empty baseball bat.
- 9. Luck is the residue of design.
- 10. Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself ...
- 11. Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within th ...
- 12. Our pitching staff is a conspiracy of ifs.
- 13. This ball - this symbol; its it worth a whole man's life?
- 14. Thou shall not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, thou shall steal and thou must.
- 15. Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.