A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
JACKIE ROBINSONI don’t like needing anyone for anything.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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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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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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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
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I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
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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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Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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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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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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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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Life is not a spectator sport.
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