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Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

Branch Rickey

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
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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Devil Handmaiden Leisure
He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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Ability Bad Situation Taking
Luck is a residue of design.
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Design Luck Residue
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
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
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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Chance Great Player Take
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 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
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
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
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
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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Devil Thinking Vision
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

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