Branch Rickey Professions : Baseball playerBorn : December 20, 1881Died : December 9, 1965 Browse All Authors Top 53 quotes by Branch Rickey Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too. Branch Rickey teambaseballmotivational I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of substance, statesman, business leaders, the clergy... So why do I spend my time arguing with Dizzy Dean? Branch Rickey baseballteachermen I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable. Branch Rickey invasionbaseballfootball Never surrender opportunity to security. Branch Rickey surrenderopportunityrunning A full mind is an empty bat. Branch Rickey batsbaseballmind The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball. Branch Rickey ballshe-manmen Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must. Branch Rickey offensestealingmean Don't look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut. Branch Rickey doughnutholeslooks Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late. Branch Rickey playertoo-lateyears He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse. Branch Rickey bad-situationsabilitysituation The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War. Branch Rickey civil-warwar 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 swingsbaseballmen 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 changebaseballyears 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 shoesbaseballideas A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance. Branch Rickey take-a-chancechanceplayer Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse. Branch Rickey infinitecapacitymen The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t. Branch Rickey ignoredsimpleworld I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good. Branch Rickey programcriticismmind 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 selfishbaseballpast How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer. Branch Rickey leisure-activitiesproblemuse Similar Authors Albert Belle baseball-player Bob Horner baseball-player Bob Wickman baseball-player Brian Gordon baseball-player Bronson Arroyo baseball-player Buster Posey baseball-playerAll Authors
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