A Quote by Jackie Robinson
I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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Listen: People are always saying, 'Rickey says Rickey.' But it's been blown way out of proportion. People might catch me, when they know I'm ticked off, saying, 'Rickey, what the heck are you doing, Rickey?' They say, 'Darn, Rickey, what are you saying Rickey for? Why don't you just say, 'I?' But I never did. I always said, 'Rickey,' and it become something for people to joke about.
Rickey got a big ranch. Rickey got a big bull. Rickey got horses. Rickey got chickens and everything. And Rickey got a 20-gallon hat.
This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.
[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television.
Rickey don't like it when Rickey can't find Rickey's limo.
Has he (Rickey Henderson) ever been here (Spring Training) the first day? You have to say Rickey's consistent. That's what you want in a ballplayer - consistency.
Nothing's impossible for Rickey. You don't have enough fingers and toes to count out Rickey.
That [film What's My Line] was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit of film [42] that I had was him making a speech.
Rickey doesn't have albums, Rickey has CDs.
Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.
I do the 'Rickey Smiley Morning Show' every morning now, which is also another blessing, because then I also do the 'Rickey Smiley for Real' show on TV One, so I'm having all little types of platforms to showcase my music, and I'm very happy about that because music is my passion.
Branch Rickey made me a better man.
He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.
The story of Jackie Robinson is also the story of Branch Rickey. He had many reasons for doing what he did, but he stood up against his own people.
I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
What I found was an emotional consistency with him. The words, the scenes, the situations - I wasn't mimicking what I thought Branch Rickey's emotional reality would have been.
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