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Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

Jackie Robinson

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At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion when the National Anthem was played. This time, I thought, it is being played for me, as much as for anyone else.
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Beginning Emotion Experience Myself Patriotic Play Thinking World
How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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Count Game Play Yourself
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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Citizenship Class Important Issue Ourselves Right Time
There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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Country Freedom Oneself
I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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Believe Myself Thinking
Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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Hate Lose One Liner
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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Diversion Himself Stock Trade
I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
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Concern Human Myself Respect Yourself
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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Dignity Himself Luxury Personal Possession Treasure
This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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Fun Hard Work Hustle Myself
Life is not a spectator sport.
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Audience Inspirational Life One Liner Sports
I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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Myself Need
Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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Fight Search Yourself
I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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Acceptance Care Myself Respect
Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with a ruthlessness that many big businesses would never think of displaying.
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Business Dedication Display Institution Public Sacred Sports Thinking
The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
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Dedication Game Myself Reciprocal Way

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