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Problems are the price you pay for progress.

Branch Rickey

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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Care Dollars Jobs
Don’t worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.
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Baseball Motivational Team
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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Games Knowing White
Luck is a residue of design.
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Design Luck Residue
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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Men Pay Price Winning
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.
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Baseball Father Player
The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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Civil War War
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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Baseball Player Winning
The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.
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Ignore Simple World
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it’s a deal.
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Baseball Boys Want
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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Devil Handmaiden Leisure
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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Adversity Progress Survival
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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Anymore Balls Men Simple
Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
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Doughnut Holes Looks
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.
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Design Indifference Negligence Review Usually
Baseball is a game of inches.
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Baseball Games Inches

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