Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
JACKIE ROBINSONI don’t like needing anyone for anything.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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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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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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You’re going to be a great player, kid.
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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.
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There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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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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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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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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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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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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Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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Life is not a spectator sport.
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