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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

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

Country Freedom Oneself
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
I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Believe Myself Thinking
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Dignity Himself Luxury Personal Possession Treasure
Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
JACKIE ROBINSON

Fight Search Yourself
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Citizenship Class Important Issue Ourselves Right Time
I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
JACKIE ROBINSON

Myself Right
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
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
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
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Ahead Game Lose Quit Yourself
This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Fun Hard Work Hustle Myself
Above anything else, I hate to lose.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Hate Lose One Liner
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
JACKIE ROBINSON

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

Diversion Himself Stock Trade

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.

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