This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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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 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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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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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.
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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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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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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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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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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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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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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.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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