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.
