A Quote by Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey made me a better man.

Branch Rickey

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Better Better Man Branch Made Man Me

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Branch Rickey
American - Athlete
December 20, 1881 - December 9, 1965

[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.

Harrison Ford

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 Henderson

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.

Jackie Robinson

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

Leo Durocher

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.

Rickey Henderson

I had the idea that the film would be much better served by a Branch Rickey lookalike than a Harrison Ford lookalike. I didn't want the audience to go into the film thinking that they knew me from some previous experience in a movie.

Harrison Ford

This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.

Rickey Henderson

He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.

Dizzy Dean

Rickey don't like it when Rickey can't find Rickey's limo.

Rickey Henderson

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.

Harrison Ford

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.

Jackie Robinson

Nothing's impossible for Rickey. You don't have enough fingers and toes to count out Rickey.

Rickey Henderson

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.

Harrison Ford

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.

Don Mattingly

If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his descendants.