Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
JACKIE ROBINSONThere’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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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’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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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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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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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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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 know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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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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