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

Branch Rickey

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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Effort Joy Zest
Luck is a residue of design.
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Design Luck Residue
Baseball is a game of inches.
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Baseball Games Inches
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
Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
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Doughnut Holes Looks
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it’s a deal.
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Baseball Boys Want
The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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Civil War War
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
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 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
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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Baseball Motivational Team
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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Chance Great Player Take
A full mind is an empty bat.
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Baseball Bats Mind
He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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Ability Bad Situation Taking
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
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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Adversity Progress Survival

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