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 ROBINSONI never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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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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I know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
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There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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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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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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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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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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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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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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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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