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.
JACKIE ROBINSONYou’re going to be a great player, kid.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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Life is not a spectator sport.
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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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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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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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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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There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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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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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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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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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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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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