Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.
BRANCH RICKEYFirst of all, a man, whether seeking achievement on the athletic field or in business, must want to win. He must feel that the thing he is doing is worthwhile; so worthwhile that he is willing to pay the price of success to attain distinction.
More Branch Rickey Quotes
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I don’t care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I’d want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I’d want to be the best at whatever I do.
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A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.
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If things don’t come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
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The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.
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He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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A full mind is an empty bat.
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The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.
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The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide – these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man’s last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
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Baseball is a game of inches.
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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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First of all, a man, whether seeking achievement on the athletic field or in business, must want to win. He must feel that the thing he is doing is worthwhile; so worthwhile that he is willing to pay the price of success to attain distinction.
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Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually…they are bound to.
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