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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

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.
BRANCH RICKEY

Games Knowing White
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
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
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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Devil Handmaiden Leisure
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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Baseball Motivational Team
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
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
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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Anymore Balls Men Simple
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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Adversity Progress Survival
Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
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Doughnut Holes Looks
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
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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Baseball Men Running
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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Chance Great Player Take
Baseball is a game of inches.
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Baseball Games Inches
A full mind is an empty bat.
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Baseball Bats Mind
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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Devil Thinking Vision

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