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 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.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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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 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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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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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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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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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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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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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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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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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 most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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