The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
BRANCH RICKEYThe world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.
More Branch Rickey Quotes
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Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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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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Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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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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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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He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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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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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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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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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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The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.
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A full mind is an empty bat.
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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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