The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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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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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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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Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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Baseball is a game of inches.
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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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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 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.
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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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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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He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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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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Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
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Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing 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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