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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

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
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
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places – uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me – I find fault.
BRANCH RICKEY

Children Courage Fault Probability
Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
BRANCH RICKEY

Doughnut Holes Looks
Luck is a residue of design.
BRANCH RICKEY

Design Luck Residue
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
If things don’t come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
BRANCH RICKEY

Effort Joy Zest
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
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
BRANCH RICKEY

Anymore Balls Men Simple
The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
BRANCH RICKEY

Civil War War
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
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
BRANCH RICKEY

Devil Handmaiden Leisure
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it’s a deal.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Boys Want
A full mind is an empty bat.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Bats Mind
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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Care Dollars Jobs

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.

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