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Famous Branch Rickey Quotes
“Don't look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.”
“When (Rube) Waddell had control and some sleep, he was unbeatable.”
“Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.”
“Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it.”
“The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.”
“It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.”
“Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.”
“He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.”
“How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.”
Source: The American diamond: a documentary of the game of baseball
“The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.”
“Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.”
“Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.”
“The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.”
“Success is that place in the road where preparation meets opportunity.”
“The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.”