A Quote by Branch Rickey

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance. — © Branch Rickey
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
Rondo's a great player, and most teams look at it that anytime you have a chance to get a great player, you do it.
The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
A big reason why you take a chance on a 34-year-old who has bags of experience, is a great player is to pass that on to your younger players.
To have a great player like Neymar at PSG would be a great honour. He's a phenomenal player, and to have great player is a great thing for the team.
Namely the manager will assess what he believes a player is worth and he will discuss that with the board and then we will go after that target. If we can achieve it at that target, great, but if we can't we will have to move on to the next player.
When you take off that sweater, your jersey, after today's game, you will be the last player in the NHL to ever wear 99. You have always been and you will always be 'The Great One,' and there will never be another.
There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.
I was a military man for 27 years. I fought so long as there was no chance for peace. I believe that there is now a chance for peace, a great chance. We must take advantage of it for the sake of those standing here, and for those who are not here - and they are many.
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
Managers are under pressure and maybe don't want to take a chance on a young player.
The game has been great to me. The Steelers have been great to me, and I think things will work out and take its toll. But I'm just singularly focused on being a great player, being here around the guys and my teammates, and representing my family.
I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on a tennis court.
I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.
But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.
If I got a chance to play with another great player, I want to do that. I mean, the objective is to win.
You hear it in the great musicians, whether it's a drummer or a horn player or a guitar player - you hear them take those breaths. You can feel that there's something they're trying to tell you.
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