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Branch Rickey

"All I had was natural ability."

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"All I had was natural ability."

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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."

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"I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself."

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"Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body."

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"The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly."

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"I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar."

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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

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"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

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"Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner."

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"The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent."

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"I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering."

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"If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit."
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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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"Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil."
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"The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race."
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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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"Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil."
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"It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind."
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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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"A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance."
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