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 ROBINSONThe right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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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’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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