A full mind is an empty bat.
BRANCH RICKEYI 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.
More Branch Rickey Quotes
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The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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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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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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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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A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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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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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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Luck is a residue of design.
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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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The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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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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The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.
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