Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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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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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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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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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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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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 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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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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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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I know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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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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Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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