A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
JACKIE ROBINSONHow you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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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.
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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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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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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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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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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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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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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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