Branch Rickey

Baseball is a game of inches.

Branch Rickey

In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.

Branch Rickey

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

Branch Rickey

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and rightly against my granddad.

Branch Rickey

A full mind is an empty bat.

Branch Rickey

All I had was natural ability.

Branch Rickey

All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon.

Branch Rickey

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

Branch Rickey

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.

Branch Rickey

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.

Branch Rickey

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Branch Rickey

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

Branch Rickey

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

Branch Rickey

Never surrender opportunity for security.

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.

Branch Rickey

Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.

Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey

Baseball is a game of inches.

In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and rightly against my granddad.

A full mind is an empty bat.

All I had was natural ability.

All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

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

Luck is the residue of design.

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

Never surrender opportunity for security.

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

Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.