Above anything else, I hate to lose.
JACKIE ROBINSONI know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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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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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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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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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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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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This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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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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Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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