Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
BRANCH RICKEYA great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
More Branch Rickey Quotes
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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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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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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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The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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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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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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A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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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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Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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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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Baseball is a game of inches.
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Luck is a residue of design.
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