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The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.

Branch Rickey

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

Children Courage Fault Probability
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
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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Anymore Balls Men Simple
Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
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Doughnut Holes Looks
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
He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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Ability Bad Situation Taking
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
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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Devil Thinking Vision
Baseball is a game of inches.
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Baseball Games Inches
Luck is a residue of design.
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Design Luck Residue
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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Adversity Progress Survival
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
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
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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Devil Handmaiden Leisure
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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