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 布兰奇·瑞基

棒球人,包括我自己,改变和接受新想法的速度很慢。我记得他们花了好几年的时间才说服他们在制服上加上号码。

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It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.

可以肯定地说,所有导致相对论的事实知识的变化,导致了一个非常伟大的理论发展,从任何角度看都是微不足道的,除了它们与理论体系结构的相关性。

I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.

我必须做出改变。这也不是对我的员工的轻视。我们都在博罗呆了七年。但有些球员对这种安排太熟悉了。我必须扭转局面。特里是我能想到的唯一能做这件事的人。所以我去找他。

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

人们抛弃了他们本可以拥有的东西,坚持完美,这是他们不能拥有的,并在他们永远不会找到它的地方寻找它。

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

我们必须打开机会之门。但我们也必须让我们的人民有能力走出这些大门。