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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.

Jackie Robinson

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 ROBINSON

Audience Life Opinion Sports Wasted Time Yourself
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Believe Dreams Fairy Tale Inspirational Listening Movie Myself Ordinary Time True Wife
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Along Forget Help Journey Remember Way
I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Myself Need
How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Count Game Play Yourself
I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
JACKIE ROBINSON

Myself Right
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Exception Impact Important Life
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Choice Citizenship Class Fame Hall Myself People Sports
You’re going to be a great player, kid.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Children Greatness Inspirational Player Potential Yourself
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Beginning Emotion Experience Myself Patriotic Play Thinking World
Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
JACKIE ROBINSON

Fight Search Yourself
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Kill Lose Myself Stand Temper Thinking Trouble Win
I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Believe Myself Thinking
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Diversion Himself Stock Trade
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Dignity Himself Luxury Personal Possession Treasure
There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Country Freedom Oneself

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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