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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.

Branch Rickey

Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually…they are bound to.
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Baseball Ideas Shoes
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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Devil Thinking Vision
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
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
Luck is a residue of design.
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Design Luck Residue
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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Devil Handmaiden Leisure
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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Chance Great Player Take
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
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
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
Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
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Doughnut Holes Looks
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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Design Effort Good Luck
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
The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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Civil War War
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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Anymore Balls Men Simple
He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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Ability Bad Situation Taking

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