Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
JACKIE ROBINSONRelationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
JACKIE ROBINSONHow you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
JACKIE ROBINSONAt 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.
JACKIE ROBINSONI don’t like needing anyone for anything.
JACKIE ROBINSONBaseball, 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.
JACKIE ROBINSONLife is not a spectator sport.
JACKIE ROBINSONAre you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
JACKIE ROBINSONI know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
JACKIE ROBINSONAbove anything else, I hate to lose.
JACKIE ROBINSONIt 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.
JACKIE ROBINSONThe right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
JACKIE ROBINSONYou’re going to be a great player, kid.
JACKIE ROBINSONA life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
JACKIE ROBINSONI don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
JACKIE ROBINSONI’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
JACKIE ROBINSONI never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
JACKIE ROBINSON