Branch Rickey
Branch Rickey
Wesley Branch Rickeywas an innovative Major League Baseballexecutive elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967. He was perhaps best known for breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier by signing African American player Jackie Robinson, for drafting the first Afro-Hispanic superstar, Roberto Clemente, for creating the framework for the modern minor league farm system, for encouraging the Major Leagues to add new teams through his involvement in the proposed Continental League, and for introducing the batting helmet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth20 December 1881
CityPortsmouth, OH
CountryUnited States of America
The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
Branch Rickey made me a better man.
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
Don't look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
First of all, a man, whether seeking achievement on the athletic field or in business, must want to win. He must feel that the thing he is doing is worthwhile; so worthwhile that he is willing to pay the price of success to attain distinction.
Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it.
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitudes. Luck is the residue of design.
It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.