The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
JACKIE ROBINSONI’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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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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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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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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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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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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