This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
JACKIE ROBINSONI’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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Life is not a spectator sport.
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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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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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I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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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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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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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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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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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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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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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.
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I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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