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.
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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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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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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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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Life is not a spectator sport.
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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 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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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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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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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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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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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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