Rickey Quotes
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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
I'm disappointed about how my career ended.
— Rickey Henderson
Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.
— Rickey Henderson
There was never a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than (Jackie) Robinson.
— Branch Rickey
The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
— 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.
— Branch Rickey
I'm a Hall of Famer and I'm still fighting for it because I love the game and I love to play.
— Rickey Henderson
The bottom line is just that Rickey Henderson was my favorite player. His flair, his style-the key word is impact-he's an impact player.
— Jimmy Rollins
To me the most important thing was stirring things up and scoring some runs so we could win a ballgame.
— Rickey Henderson
Branch Rickey made me a better man.
— Branch Rickey
I can't find a job. It makes me crazy.
— Rickey Henderson
I don't think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game.
— Rickey Henderson
People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.
— Rickey Henderson
Luck is a residue of design.
— Branch Rickey
I love the game and I wanted to continue playing. It came to a time that I had to stop.
— Rickey Henderson
I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.
— Branch Rickey
You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.
— Rickey Henderson
I'm already in the (record) books three or four times.
— Rickey Henderson
Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
— Branch Rickey
If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
— Branch Rickey
The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
— Branch Rickey
My impact on the game was going out there and making things happen.
— Rickey Henderson
Rickey don't like it when Rickey can't find Rickey's limo.
— Rickey Henderson
Rickey got a big ranch. Rickey got a big bull. Rickey got horses. Rickey got chickens and everything. And Rickey got a 20-gallon hat.
— Rickey Henderson
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
The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.
— Rickey Henderson
I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very exciting to me.
— Rickey Henderson
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
— Branch Rickey
Never surrender opportunity for security.
— Branch Rickey
All I'm asking for is what I want.
— Rickey Henderson
Today I am the greatest of all time.
— Rickey Henderson
Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance.
— George Rickey
Let's see, for breakfast Rickey will have bacon and eggs, and grits if I can get 'em.
— Rickey Henderson
Never surrender opportunity to security.
— Branch Rickey
This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.
— Rickey Henderson
He's the best prospect I've ever seen.
— Branch Rickey
The world's not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can't.
— Branch Rickey
Perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me!
— George Rickey
Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.
— Branch Rickey
My journey as a player is complete.
— Rickey Henderson
Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.
— Branch Rickey
Don't worry, Rickey, you're still the best.
— Rickey Henderson
Lou Brock was a great base stealer but today I am the greatest.
— Rickey Henderson
I did so many things that made me a threat.
— Rickey Henderson
Rickey was never motivated by stats. He was motivated by numbers. Wins, runs, steals.
— Rickey Henderson
I love talking about baserunning.
— Rickey Henderson
Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.
— Branch Rickey
All I had was natural ability.
— Branch Rickey
I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good.
— Branch Rickey
Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.
— Branch Rickey
I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
— Rickey Henderson
Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.
— Rickey Henderson
Even the slowest guy can go from first to third and help win a ballgame.
— Rickey Henderson
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
— Branch Rickey
We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.
— Branch Rickey
Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it.
— Branch Rickey
I can still steal a base anytime I get ready.
— Rickey Henderson
Sometimes I really do feel that Peter Griffin is right about the clouds plotting against us.
— Rickey Russell
Embrace Your Abomination!" - in regards to religious zealots constantly calling gays an abomination.
— Rickey Russell
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.
— Branch Rickey
People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.
— Rickey Henderson
Well, Rickey's not one of them, so that's 49 percent right there.
— Rickey Henderson
Speeches and me don't get along sometimes. It is kind of like putting a tie too tight on my neck. I'm going to do whatever feels right.
— Rickey Henderson
White people build a really big fire and stand way back. Indians build a little-bitty fire and get real close.
— Rickey Bray
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
I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first.
— Rickey Henderson
To all the kids out there: Follow your dream. Believe in your dream. Because dreams do come true.
— Rickey Henderson
A full mind is an empty bat.
— Branch Rickey
I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.
— Rickey Henderson
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
— Branch Rickey
Nothing's impossible for Rickey. You don't have enough fingers and toes to count out Rickey.
— Rickey Henderson
I like playing for Oakland, they have a very colorful uniform.
— Rickey Henderson
Rickey doesn't have albums, Rickey has CDs.
— Rickey Henderson
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
— Branch Rickey
When you're a kid, you want to be a millionaire.
— Rickey Henderson
In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.
— Rickey Henderson
