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Branch Rickey [1881-1965] American

Rank: 101
Athlete, Baseball player

Wesley Branch Rickey was an innovative Major League Baseball executive elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967. He was perhaps best known for breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier by signing African American player Jackie Robinson, for drafting the first Hispanic superstar, Roberto Clemente, for creating the framework for the modern minor league farm system, for encouraging the Major Leagues to add new teams through his involvement in the proposed Continental League, and for introducing the batting helmet.

Courage, Design, Failure, Respect, Sports, Strength

Quote	Tags	Rank
It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.		101
Never surrender opportunity for security.		102
If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.		103
How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.		104
Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.		105
Baseball is a game of inches.		106
Problems are the price you pay for progress.		107
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.		108
Luck is the residue of design.	Design	109
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.	Sports	110
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.	Courage, Failure, Respect, Strength	111
The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.		112
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.		113
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.		114
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.		115
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.		116
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.		117
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.		118
Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.		119
Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.		120
A full mind is an empty bat.		121
All I had was natural ability.		122

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