A full mind is an empty bat.
BRANCH RICKEYI 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.
More Branch Rickey Quotes
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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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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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He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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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 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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Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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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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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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Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it’s a deal.
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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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Luck is a residue of design.
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