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 RICKEYIf things don’t come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
More Branch Rickey Quotes
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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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Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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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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Baseball is a game of inches.
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A full mind is an empty bat.
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Luck is a residue of design.
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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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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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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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The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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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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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.
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A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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