Author: Branch Rickey

Quotes

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

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

- Branch Rickey

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

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

- Branch Rickey

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.

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

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

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

- Branch Rickey

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.

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

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

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

- Branch Rickey

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