I know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
JACKIE ROBINSONI’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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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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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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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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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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Life is not a spectator sport.
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Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
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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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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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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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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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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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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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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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