68 Quotes by Branch Rickey

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

I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an honorary Doctor of Laws. So, would somebody please tell me why I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean.

The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.

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.

The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.

These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down those standards which have stood in such good stead in crises that are past. Baseball cannot be selfish, or irresponsible, or lax. Neither can the men who operate it.

We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

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

Don't look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.