68 Quotes by 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.

I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

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.

Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.

Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.

Luck is a residue of design.

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.