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" Problems are the price you pay for progress. "

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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. "

" Never surrender opportunity for security. "

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

" Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late. "

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" Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. "

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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. "

" Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day. "

" 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. "

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

" A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" All I had was natural ability. "

Natural Ability

" It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind. "

" Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game. "