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Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.

Branch Rickey

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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Country Elusiveness Features Last Man Name Yesterday
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
BRANCH RICKEY

Anymore Balls Men Simple
The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.
BRANCH RICKEY

Ignore Simple World
Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
BRANCH RICKEY

Doughnut Holes Looks
It (a baseball box score) doesn’t tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Father Player
He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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Ability Bad Situation Taking
A full mind is an empty bat.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Bats Mind
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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Devil Handmaiden Leisure
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it’s a deal.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Boys Want
The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
BRANCH RICKEY

Civil War War
Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Men Running
Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.
BRANCH RICKEY

Design Effort Good Luck
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places – uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me – I find fault.
BRANCH RICKEY

Children Courage Fault Probability
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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Care Dollars Jobs
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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Games Knowing White
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
BRANCH RICKEY

Chance Great Player Take

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