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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.

Branch Rickey

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
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
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
Baseball is a game of inches.
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Baseball Games Inches
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
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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Ideas Shoes
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
Luck is a residue of design.
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Design Luck Residue
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
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
He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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Ability Bad Situation Taking
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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Adversity Progress Survival
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
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
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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Devil Thinking Vision
Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
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Doughnut Holes Looks

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 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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