I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
JACKIE ROBINSONYou’re going to be a great player, kid.
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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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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Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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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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Life is not a spectator sport.
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This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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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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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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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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There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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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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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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