Creative Quotations from . . .
Branch Rickey
(1881-1965) born on Dec 20
US "baseball player, manager, executive". "He devised the farm system of training ballplayers, 1919; broke the color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson, 1946."
 
   
F
Problems are the price you pay for progress.

R
A full mind is an empty bat.
A
Luck is the Residue of Design.
N
Baseball is a game of inches.
K
Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
R: "In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
A: "At the time, Rickey was running the Brooklyn Dodgers; lecture title, 1950."
N: "In "Quote," 31 Jul 1966."
K: "In "Friendly Advice," by Jon Winokur, 1990."



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