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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.

Branch Rickey

The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
BRANCH RICKEY

Civil War War
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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Country Elusiveness Features Last Man Name Yesterday
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it’s a deal.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Boys Want
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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Devil Thinking Vision
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
A full mind is an empty bat.
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Baseball Bats Mind
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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Father Player
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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Chance Great Player Take
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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Men Pay Price Winning
Don’t worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Motivational Team
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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Men Running
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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Care Dollars Jobs
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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Devil Handmaiden Leisure
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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Anymore Balls Men Simple
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

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