Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
BRANCH RICKEYThe world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.
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The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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A full mind is an empty bat.
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A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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Baseball is a game of inches.
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Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.
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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.
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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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The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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