How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
JACKIE ROBINSONLife is not a spectator sport.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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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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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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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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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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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 don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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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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Life is not a spectator sport.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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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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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
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