Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
JACKIE ROBINSONThis ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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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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Life is not a spectator sport.
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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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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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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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This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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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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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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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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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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