Branch Rickey Baseball Quotes
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Branch Rickey Baseball Quotes & Sayings
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Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.
— Leo Durocher
Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.
— John Steinbeck
When I arrived, he was in the kitchen, in the middle of his Sunday morning ritual of cleaning his cleaning supplies.
— Lee Goldberg
I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.
— Branch Rickey
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
— Branch Rickey
Baseball is a game of inches.
— Branch Rickey
I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
— Nina Simone
He's the best prospect I've ever seen.
— 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
The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.
— John Keegan
Paradoxes are what draws Wisdom like bees to honey! Hence, where there is no paradox (Complexity), there is no need for Wisdom....
— Amit Chatterjee
I dream of miracles but I cannot imagine them. I pray for mercy, yet I cannot envision how it would come about.
— Anne Rice
We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.
— Branch Rickey
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.
— Branch Rickey