Luck is a residue of design.
BRANCH RICKEYFill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it’s a deal.
More Branch Rickey Quotes
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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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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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Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it’s a deal.
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Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.
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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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Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
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A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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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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A full mind is an empty bat.
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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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Baseball is a game of inches.
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The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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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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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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The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.
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