American - Athlete | December 20, 1881 - December 9, 1965
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
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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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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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How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.
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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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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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Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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Baseball is a game of inches.
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The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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All I had was natural ability.
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