Quotes by Branch Rickey

“Its unbelievable how much you dont know about the game youve been playing all your life.”

“A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.”

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

“Problems are the price you pay for progress.”

“Luck is the residue of design.”

“I dont care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, Id want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. Id want to be the best at whatever I do.”

“Never surrender opportunity for security.”

“It was all I lived for, to play baseball.”

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

“After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.”

A full mind is an empty baseball bat.

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

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

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.