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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

I don’t like needing anyone for anything.

Jackie Robinson

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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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  Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

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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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  Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.

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  There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

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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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  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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  Above anything else, I hate to lose.

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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 know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.

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  I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!

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  I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

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  You’re going to be a great player, kid.

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  How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

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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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  This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

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