Don’t worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.
BRANCH RICKEYGood luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.
More Branch Rickey Quotes
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Luck is a residue of design.
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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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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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Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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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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The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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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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A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
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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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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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The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.
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He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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