A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
JACKIE ROBINSONA life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
JACKIE ROBINSONI’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
JACKIE ROBINSONLife 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 ROBINSONNext 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 ROBINSONBaseball, 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 ROBINSONRelationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
JACKIE ROBINSONYou’re going to be a great player, kid.
JACKIE ROBINSONI never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
JACKIE ROBINSONAre you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
JACKIE ROBINSONIt’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
JACKIE ROBINSONI don’t like needing anyone for anything.
JACKIE ROBINSONHow you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
JACKIE ROBINSONAt 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 ROBINSONPop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
JACKIE ROBINSONThe 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 ROBINSONLife is not a spectator sport.
JACKIE ROBINSON