I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
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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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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Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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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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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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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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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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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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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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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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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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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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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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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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