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 next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do. Branch Rickey More Quotes by Branch Rickey More Quotes From Branch Rickey 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 baseball teacher men I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable. Branch Rickey invasion baseball football Never surrender opportunity to security. Branch Rickey surrender opportunity running A full mind is an empty bat. Branch Rickey bats baseball mind The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball. Branch Rickey balls he-man men Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must. Branch Rickey offense stealing mean Don't look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut. Branch Rickey doughnut holes looks Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late. Branch Rickey player too-late years He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse. Branch Rickey bad-situations ability situation The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War. Branch Rickey civil-war war 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 swings baseball men 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 change baseball years 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 shoes baseball ideas A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance. Branch Rickey take-a-chance chance player Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse. Branch Rickey infinite capacity men The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t. Branch Rickey ignored simple world I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good. Branch Rickey program criticism mind 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 selfish baseball past How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer. Branch Rickey leisure-activities problem use Baseball is a game of inches. Branch Rickey inches baseball games
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