Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.
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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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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A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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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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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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He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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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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We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.
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Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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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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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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Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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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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