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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

Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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Adversity Progress Survival
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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Anymore Balls Men Simple
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
Luck is a residue of design.
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Design Luck Residue
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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Baseball Father Player
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
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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Devil Handmaiden Leisure
The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.
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Ignore Simple World
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
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
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 only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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Civil War War
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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Effort Joy Zest
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

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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