I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
JACKIE ROBINSONThe 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.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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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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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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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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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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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
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This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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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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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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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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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 don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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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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