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

Branch Rickey

Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.
BRANCH RICKEY

Design Effort Good Luck
Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
BRANCH RICKEY

Doughnut Holes Looks
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
The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
BRANCH RICKEY

Civil War War
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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Ideas Shoes
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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Care Dollars Jobs
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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Men Pay Price Winning
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
BRANCH RICKEY

Adversity Progress Survival
If things don’t come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
BRANCH RICKEY

Effort Joy Zest
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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Games Knowing White
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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Men Running
The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.
BRANCH RICKEY

Ignore Simple World
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
BRANCH RICKEY

Chance Great Player Take
Luck is a residue of design.
BRANCH RICKEY

Design Luck Residue
We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Player Winning
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 only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.

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