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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.

Branch Rickey

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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Design Indifference Negligence Review Usually
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.
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Men Pay Price Winning
A full mind is an empty bat.
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Baseball Bats Mind
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
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it’s a deal.
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Baseball Boys Want
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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Baseball Player Winning
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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Children Courage Fault Probability
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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Design Effort Good Luck
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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Devil Thinking Vision
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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Care Dollars Jobs
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
The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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Civil War War
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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Devil Handmaiden Leisure
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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Adversity Progress Survival
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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Chance Great Player Take

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