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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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Branch Rickey
Age: 83 †
Born: 1881
Born: December 20
Died: 1965
Died: December 9
Baseball Player
Stockdale
Ohio
Wesley Branch Rickey
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Luck is a residue of design.
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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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Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
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Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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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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Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
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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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Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.
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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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Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.
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How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.
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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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When (Rube) Waddell had control and some sleep, he was unbeatable.
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The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.
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It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.
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These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down those standards which have stood in such good stead in crises that are past. Baseball cannot be selfish, or irresponsible, or lax. Neither can the men who operate it.
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Branch Rickey made me a better man.
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He's the best prospect I've ever seen.
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Never surrender opportunity to security.
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