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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

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.
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Children Courage Fault Probability
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
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
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
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
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
He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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Ability Bad Situation Taking
Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
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Doughnut Holes Looks
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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Care Dollars Jobs
Baseball is a game of inches.
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Baseball Games Inches
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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Baseball Ideas Shoes
A full mind is an empty bat.
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Baseball Bats Mind
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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Chance Great Player Take
The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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Civil War War
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

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

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