This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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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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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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Life is not a spectator sport.
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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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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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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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I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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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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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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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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