Branch Rickey:
"Roses and sleep are two wonderful things, Burt. Sleep, you can get when you're in your casket, and flowers look great on top of it. But you don't look like a dead man to me, Burt."
Leo Durocher:
"If Robinson can help us win, then he is gonna play on this ball club!"
Branch Rickey:
"It's another opening day, Harold. All future, no past."
Harold Parrott:
"It's a blank page, sir."
Reporter:
" Baseball was proof positive that democracy was real. A baseball box score after all, is a democratic thing. It doesn't say how big you are, or what religion you follow it does not know how you voted, or the color of your skin, it simply states what kind of ballplayer you were on any particular day."
Branch Rickey:
"We had a victory of fascism in Germany. It's time, time we had a victory over racism at home."
Jackie:
"I don't think it matters what I believe, only what I do."
Branch Rickey:
"He's a Methodist, I'm a Methodist... And God's a Methodist; We can't go wrong."
Branch Rickey:
"You think God likes baseball, Herb?"
Herb Pennock:
" What - ? What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
Branch Rickey:
"It means someday you're gonna meet God, and when he inquires as to why you didn't take the field against Robinson in Philadelphia, and you answer that it's because he was a Negro, it may not be a sufficient reply!"
Ben Chapman:
"Hey, Stanky, what's it like bein' a nigger's nigger?"
Eddie Stankey:
"I dunno, Chapman, what's it like bein' a redneck piece of shit?"
Pee Wee Reese:
"Maybe tomorrow, we'll all wear 42, so nobody could tell us apart."
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