I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
JACKIE ROBINSONI never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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Life is not a spectator sport.
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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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