Life is not a spectator sport.
JACKIE ROBINSONYou’re going to be a great player, kid.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.
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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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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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Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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