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 RICKEYIt (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.
More Branch Rickey Quotes
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Don’t worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.
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Luck is a residue of design.
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He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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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 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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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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Baseball is a game of inches.
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Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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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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The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
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