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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

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
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
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
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
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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Chance Great Player Take
A full mind is an empty bat.
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Baseball Bats Mind
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
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
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
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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Anymore Balls Men Simple
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
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
The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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Civil War War
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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Devil Handmaiden Leisure
He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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Ability Bad Situation Taking

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