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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.

Jackie Robinson

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Diversion Himself Stock Trade
I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Myself Need
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
Above anything else, I hate to lose.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Hate Lose One Liner
There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Country Freedom Oneself
This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Fun Hard Work Hustle Myself
I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Believe Myself Thinking
I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Acceptance Care Myself Respect
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
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
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
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
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
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Along Forget Help Journey Remember Way
Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Change Forever Gift Memories Mindset Myself Relationship Time
I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
JACKIE ROBINSON

Myself Right

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