A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
JACKIE ROBINSONRelationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
-
-
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON -
You’re going to be a great player, kid.
JACKIE ROBINSON -
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 ROBINSON -
I know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
JACKIE ROBINSON -
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
JACKIE ROBINSON -
Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
JACKIE ROBINSON -
I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
JACKIE ROBINSON -
I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
JACKIE ROBINSON -
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON -
This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
JACKIE ROBINSON -
There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
JACKIE ROBINSON -
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON -
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON -
I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
JACKIE ROBINSON -
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
JACKIE ROBINSON






