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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.
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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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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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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Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
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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 world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.
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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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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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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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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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Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.
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When (Rube) Waddell had control and some sleep, he was unbeatable.
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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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Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.
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The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.
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Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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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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Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.
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