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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.

Jackie Robinson

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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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Concern Human Myself Respect Yourself
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.
JACKIE ROBINSON

Business Dedication Display Institution Public Sacred Sports Thinking
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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Kill Lose Myself Stand Temper Thinking Trouble Win
How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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Count Game Play Yourself
Life is not a spectator sport.
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Audience Inspirational Life One Liner Sports
I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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Acceptance Care Myself Respect
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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Exception Impact Important Life
I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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Myself Need
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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Diversion Himself Stock Trade
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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Audience Life Opinion Sports Wasted Time Yourself
It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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Easy Field Race Relationship
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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Beginning Emotion Experience Myself Patriotic Play Thinking World
I know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
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Black Man Myself White World
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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Dedication Game Myself Reciprocal Way
I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
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Myself Right
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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Citizenship Class Important Issue Ourselves Right Time

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