68 Quotes by Branch Rickey
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Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
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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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A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.
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Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.
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Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.
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Luck is a residue of design.
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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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