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22 quotes by Branch Rickey

MLB debut June 16, 1905 for the St. Louis Browns Last MLB appearance August 25, 1914 for the St. Louis Browns Career statistics Batting average .239 Hits 82 Runs batted in 39 Teams As player St. Louis Browns (1905–1906) New York Highlanders (1907) St. Louis Browns (1914) As manager St. Louis Browns (1913–1915) St. Louis Cardinals (1919–1925) As general manager St. Louis Browns (1913–1915, 1919) St. Louis Cardinals...
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It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

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Luck is the residue of design.

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

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Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

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Never surrender opportunity for security.

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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... →

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Baseball is a game of inches.

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

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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.

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

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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... →

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Problems are the price you pay for progress.

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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

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