The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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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.
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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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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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I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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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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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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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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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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Life is not a spectator sport.
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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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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.
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