68 Quotes by Branch Rickey

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

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

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

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

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

Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

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.