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A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

Branch Rickey

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
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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Chance Great Player Take
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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Player Winning
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.
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Country Elusiveness Features Last Man Name Yesterday
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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Devil Thinking Vision
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
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
Baseball is a game of inches.
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Baseball Games Inches
A full mind is an empty bat.
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Baseball Bats Mind
Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
BRANCH RICKEY

Doughnut Holes Looks
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 Motivational Team
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
BRANCH RICKEY

Anymore Balls Men Simple
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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Devil Handmaiden Leisure
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
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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Adversity Progress Survival

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