Compulsions Quotes

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.

Words are also actions,

and actions are a kind of words.

I was just excited to have challenging work to do

and smart people to work with.

Along what dimension might this person be a superstar?

I have never taken any exercise,

except sleeping and resting,

and I never intend to take any.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man,

I spend one third of my time thinking about

myself and what I am going to say and two

thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than

it is loved by the good.

The man who loves other countries as much as

his own stands on a level with the man

who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Teamwork is everything in racing.

Love, friendship and

respect do not unite

people as much as a

common hatred for

something.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe.

You have to make it fall.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

In the end,

we create ourselves.

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser

than you were when you woke up.

Do the right thing.

It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

The past cannot be cured,

but the future can be shaped.

Gold is good in its place;

but loving,

brave,

patriotic men are better than gold.

The value of a man resides in his ideas,

not in his possessions.

Sometimes simple things are the most extraordinary.