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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.

Branch Rickey

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
Luck is a residue of design.
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Design Luck Residue
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
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
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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Adversity Progress Survival
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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Devil Thinking Vision
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
The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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Civil War War
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
A full mind is an empty bat.
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Baseball Bats Mind
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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Chance Great Player Take
Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
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Doughnut Holes Looks
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
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
He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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Ability Bad Situation Taking

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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