Life 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 ROBINSONI don’t like needing anyone for anything.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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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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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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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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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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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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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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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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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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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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Life is not a spectator sport.
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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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