The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
JACKIE ROBINSONThe most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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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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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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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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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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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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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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I know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
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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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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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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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Life is not a spectator sport.
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