A full mind is an empty bat.
BRANCH RICKEYA full mind is an empty bat.
More Branch Rickey Quotes
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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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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 is a game of inches.
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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 great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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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 man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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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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The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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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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Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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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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Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
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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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