Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
JACKIE ROBINSONAre you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
JACKIE ROBINSONI know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
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 ROBINSONIt’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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 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 ROBINSONI don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
JACKIE ROBINSONI’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
JACKIE ROBINSONThere’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
JACKIE ROBINSONThe right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
JACKIE ROBINSONHow you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
JACKIE ROBINSONAbove anything else, I hate to lose.
JACKIE ROBINSONAt 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.
JACKIE ROBINSONPop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
JACKIE ROBINSONRelationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
JACKIE ROBINSONI’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
JACKIE ROBINSON