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.
BRANCH RICKEYThe 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.
More Branch Rickey Quotes
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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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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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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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A full mind is an empty bat.
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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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Luck is a residue of design.
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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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Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it’s a deal.
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Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
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The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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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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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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