Quotes by Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey

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.

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Men

Swings

Baseball is a game of inches.

Baseball

Games

Inches

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.

Baseball

Ideas

Shoes

Branch Rickey made me a better man.

Branches

Made

Men

Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it’s a deal.

Baseball

Boys

Want

He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.

Ability

Bad Situations

Situation

He’s the best prospect I’ve ever seen.

Baseball

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

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Problem

Use

I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It’s unthinkable.

Baseball

Football

Invasion

I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.

Games

Knowing

White

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Quotes by Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey

Baseball is a game of inches.

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 made me a better man.

Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it’s a deal.

He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.

He’s the best prospect I’ve ever seen.

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

I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It’s unthinkable.

I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.

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