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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.

Jackie Robinson

Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
JACKIE ROBINSON

Fight Search Yourself
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Ahead Game Lose Quit Yourself
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Business Dedication Display Institution Public Sacred Sports Thinking
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Beginning Emotion Experience Myself Patriotic Play Thinking World
I know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Black Man Myself White World
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Believe Dreams Fairy Tale Inspirational Listening Movie Myself Ordinary Time True Wife
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Audience Life Opinion Sports Wasted Time Yourself
I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
JACKIE ROBINSON

Myself Right
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Along Forget Help Journey Remember Way
Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Change Forever Gift Memories Mindset Myself Relationship Time
Above anything else, I hate to lose.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Hate Lose One Liner
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Dignity Himself Luxury Personal Possession Treasure
How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Count Game Play Yourself
I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Acceptance Care Myself Respect
I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Myself Need
I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Concern Human Myself Respect Yourself

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