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Life is not a spectator sport.

Jackie Robinson

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 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’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
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Myself Right
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
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 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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Along Forget Help Journey Remember Way
How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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Count Game Play Yourself
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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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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Concern Human Myself Respect Yourself
Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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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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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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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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Life is not a spectator sport.
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Life is not a spectator sport.

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