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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.

Jackie Robinson

I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Believe Myself Thinking
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Ahead Game Lose Quit Yourself
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Beginning Emotion Experience Myself Patriotic Play Thinking World
I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Myself Need
I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
JACKIE ROBINSON

Myself Right
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Kill Lose Myself Stand Temper Thinking Trouble Win
Life is not a spectator sport.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Audience Inspirational Life One Liner Sports
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 ROBINSON

Audience Life Opinion Sports Wasted Time Yourself
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Choice Citizenship Class Fame Hall Myself People Sports
I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Concern Human Myself Respect Yourself
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Citizenship Class Important Issue Ourselves Right Time
This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Fun Hard Work Hustle Myself
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Believe Dreams Fairy Tale Inspirational Listening Movie Myself Ordinary Time True Wife
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Diversion Himself Stock Trade
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Business Dedication Display Institution Public Sacred Sports Thinking
Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
JACKIE ROBINSON

Fight Search Yourself

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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