This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
JACKIE ROBINSONHow you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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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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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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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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I know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
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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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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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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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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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Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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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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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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Life is not a spectator sport.
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