Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
JACKIE ROBINSONPop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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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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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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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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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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This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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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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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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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 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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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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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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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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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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