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I know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.

Jackie Robinson

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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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Ahead Game Lose Quit Yourself
Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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Hate Lose One Liner
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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Choice Citizenship Class Fame Hall Myself People Sports
You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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Children Greatness Inspirational Player Potential Yourself
Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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Fight Search Yourself
This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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Fun Hard Work Hustle Myself
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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Dedication Game Myself Reciprocal Way
I know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Black Man Myself White World
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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Business Dedication Display Institution Public Sacred Sports Thinking
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Audience Life Opinion Sports Wasted Time Yourself
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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Diversion Himself Stock Trade
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 ROBINSON

Along Forget Help Journey Remember Way
It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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Easy Field Race Relationship
I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Concern Human Myself Respect Yourself
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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Exception Impact Important Life
I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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Believe Myself Thinking

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