Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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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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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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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Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it’s a deal.
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The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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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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A full mind is an empty bat.
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Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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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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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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