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Never surrender opportunity to security.
Branch Rickey
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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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I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of substance, statesman, business leaders, the clergy... So why do I spend my time arguing with Dizzy Dean?
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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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Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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When (Rube) Waddell had control and some sleep, he was unbeatable.
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He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
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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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Success is that place in the road where preparation meets opportunity.
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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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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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Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
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The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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He's the best prospect I've ever seen.
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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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Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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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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Branch Rickey made me a better man.
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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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Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.
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