I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
JACKIE ROBINSONAbove anything else, I hate to lose.
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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Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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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’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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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.
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This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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Life is not a spectator sport.
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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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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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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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