How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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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.
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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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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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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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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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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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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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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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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 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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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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