black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Branch Rickey

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

Baseball Player Winning
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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Design Indifference Negligence Review Usually
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
BRANCH RICKEY

Anymore Balls Men Simple
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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Games Knowing White
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
BRANCH RICKEY

Chance Great Player Take
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it’s a deal.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Boys Want
Luck is a residue of design.
BRANCH RICKEY

Design Luck Residue
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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Men Pay Price Winning
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
BRANCH RICKEY

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

Ignore Simple World
Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Men Running
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
BRANCH RICKEY

Adversity Progress Survival
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

Baseball Ideas Shoes
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
BRANCH RICKEY

Devil Handmaiden Leisure
The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
BRANCH RICKEY

Civil War War
Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
BRANCH RICKEY

Doughnut Holes Looks

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Branch Rickey Quotes