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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

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
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
Luck is a residue of design.
BRANCH RICKEY

Design Luck Residue
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
BRANCH RICKEY

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

Ignore Simple World
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
Don’t worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Motivational Team
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
BRANCH RICKEY

Devil Thinking Vision
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
BRANCH RICKEY

Devil Handmaiden Leisure
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
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
BRANCH RICKEY

Anymore Balls Men Simple
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 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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Country Elusiveness Features Last Man Name Yesterday

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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