A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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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.
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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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Life is not a spectator sport.
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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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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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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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I know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
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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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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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