Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it’s a deal.
BRANCH RICKEYBaseball 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.
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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A full mind is an empty bat.
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He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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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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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 world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.
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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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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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Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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Baseball is a game of inches.
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Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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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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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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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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