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Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.

Branch Rickey

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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Children Courage Fault Probability
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
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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Chance Great Player Take
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
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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Anymore Balls Men Simple
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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Adversity Progress Survival
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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Design Indifference Negligence Review Usually
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
A full mind is an empty bat.
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Baseball Bats Mind
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
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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Devil Handmaiden Leisure
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
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
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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Baseball Men Running
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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Devil Thinking Vision

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