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 ROBINSONIt’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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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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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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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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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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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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This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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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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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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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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