This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
JACKIE ROBINSONYou’re going to be a great player, kid.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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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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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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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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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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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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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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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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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 don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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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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There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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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 know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
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