Above anything else, I hate to lose.
JACKIE ROBINSONAbove anything else, I hate to lose.
JACKIE ROBINSONThis ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
JACKIE ROBINSONLife is not a spectator sport.
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 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 ROBINSONHow you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
JACKIE ROBINSONThe most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
JACKIE ROBINSONI don’t like needing anyone for anything.
JACKIE ROBINSONI’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
JACKIE ROBINSONBaseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
JACKIE ROBINSONThe 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 ROBINSONI never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
JACKIE ROBINSONIt’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
JACKIE ROBINSONI know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
JACKIE ROBINSONThe 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.
JACKIE ROBINSON