Quotes from Branch Rickey

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

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.

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.

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.

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.

All I had was natural ability.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

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

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

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

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.