Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
JACKIE ROBINSONA life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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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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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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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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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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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.
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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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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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Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we’ve got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go.
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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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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I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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