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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.

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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Motivational Team
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
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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Chance Great Player Take
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
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
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
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
The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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Civil War War
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
A full mind is an empty bat.
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Baseball Bats Mind
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
Luck is a residue of design.
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Design Luck Residue
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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Devil Thinking Vision
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
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 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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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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