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1. "Luck is the residue of design." ~ Branch Rickey
2. "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
3. "Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil." ~ Branch Rickey
4. "If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit." ~ Branch Rickey
5. "It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind." ~ Branch Rickey
6. "Never surrender opportunity for security." ~ Branch Rickey
7. "A full mind is an empty bat." ~ Branch Rickey
8. "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." ~ Branch Rickey
9. "Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game." ~ Branch Rickey
10. "How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer." ~ Branch Rickey
11. "The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball." ~ Branch Rickey
12. "A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance." ~ Branch Rickey
13. "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." ~ Branch Rickey
14. "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
15. "Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil." ~ Branch Rickey
16. "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
17. "The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race." ~ Branch Rickey
18. "Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must." ~ Branch Rickey

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So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman."
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