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.
JACKIE ROBINSONIt 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.
JACKIE ROBINSONA life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
JACKIE ROBINSONI’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
JACKIE ROBINSONBaseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
JACKIE ROBINSONIf 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.
JACKIE ROBINSONThere’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
JACKIE ROBINSONI never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
JACKIE ROBINSONLife 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 ROBINSONLife is not a spectator sport.
JACKIE ROBINSONYou’re going to be a great player, kid.
JACKIE ROBINSONI don’t like needing anyone for anything.
JACKIE ROBINSONI’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
JACKIE ROBINSONRelationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
JACKIE ROBINSONAbove 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.
JACKIE ROBINSONPop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
JACKIE ROBINSON