Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
JACKIE ROBINSONI never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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Life is not a spectator sport.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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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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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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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 know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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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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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 don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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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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