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Branch Rickey

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

Civil War War
If things don’t come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
BRANCH RICKEY

Effort Joy Zest
Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
BRANCH RICKEY

Doughnut Holes Looks
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
BRANCH RICKEY

Devil Handmaiden Leisure
Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitudes. Luck is the residue of design.
BRANCH RICKEY

Design Indifference Negligence Review Usually
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
BRANCH RICKEY

Adversity Progress Survival
We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Player Winning
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
A full mind is an empty bat.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Bats Mind
Luck is a residue of design.
BRANCH RICKEY

Design Luck Residue
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
BRANCH RICKEY

Chance Great Player Take
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
BRANCH RICKEY

Anymore Balls Men Simple
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
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

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