I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
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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Next 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.
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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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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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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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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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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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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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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
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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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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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Life is not a spectator sport.
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