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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.

~Branch Rickey

Topics: Affects Anything Because Children Civil Closest Concerns Courage Failure Fault Find Go Like Me Part Places Respect Strength Them Those Want

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Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

~Branch Rickey

Topics: Indeed Mean Must Offense Shall Shalt Steal Thou

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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.

~Branch Rickey

Topics: Day Field Forever He His Last Live Lived Off Though Wished

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How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

~Branch Rickey

Topics: Ballplayer Biggest Biggest Problem How Leisure Problem Time Use Your

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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

~Branch Rickey

Topics: Devil Leisure

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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.

~Branch Rickey

Topics: Baseball First Game Individualist Only Player Pure Rules Second Spirit Team Within

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Problems are the price you pay for progress.

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Topics: Pay Price Problems Progress You

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The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

~Branch Rickey

Topics: Black Game Greatest History Material Our Race Raw Raw Material Reservoir The History Of Untapped

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Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

~Branch Rickey

Topics: About Devil Seeing Than Thinking Worse

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Baseball is a game of inches.

~Branch Rickey

Topics: Baseball Game Inches

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Athlete

Born: December 20th, 1881

Died: December 9th, 1965

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