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Branch Rickey

We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.
BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Player Winning
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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Effort Joy Zest
He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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Ability Bad Situation Taking
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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Games Knowing White
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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Chance Great Player Take
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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Adversity Progress Survival
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
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BRANCH RICKEY

Baseball Boys Want
Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
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Doughnut Holes Looks
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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Devil Thinking Vision
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.
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Baseball Ideas Shoes
Luck is a residue of design.
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Design Luck Residue
Baseball is a game of inches.
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Baseball Games Inches
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
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
The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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Civil War War

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