Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I’ll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.
JACKIE ROBINSONNext time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I’ll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.
JACKIE ROBINSONI don’t like needing anyone for anything.
JACKIE ROBINSONIf 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.
JACKIE ROBINSONPop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
JACKIE ROBINSONYou’re going to be a great player, kid.
JACKIE ROBINSONAt 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.
JACKIE ROBINSONAre you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
JACKIE ROBINSONBaseball, 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.
JACKIE ROBINSONIt’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
JACKIE ROBINSONI never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
JACKIE ROBINSONThe right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
JACKIE ROBINSONLife 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 ROBINSONIt 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.
JACKIE ROBINSONRelationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
JACKIE ROBINSONAbove anything else, I hate to lose.
JACKIE ROBINSONI know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
JACKIE ROBINSON