Branch Rickey Quotes

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

Baseball is a game of inches.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ball player.

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eterntiy itself, but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of a hit-and-run.

Never surrender opportunity for security.

Problems are the prcie you pay for progress.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

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