At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion when the National Anthem was played. This time, I thought, it is being played for me, as much as for anyone else.
JACKIE ROBINSONPop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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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 think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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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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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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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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Life is not a spectator sport.
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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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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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I know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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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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