Jackie Robinson Quotes
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong -- economically, defensively and morally -- we cannot afford the waste of having second- and third-class citizens.
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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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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 don't like needing anyone for anything.
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I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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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 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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A life isn't significant except for its impact on others' lives.
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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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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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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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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 never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces
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I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there... I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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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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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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It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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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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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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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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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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When he (Richard Nixon) took the oath of office, he pledged to be the president for 100% of the people, and I challenge the president to prove that he is being the president for 100% of the people.
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I'm not goin' anywhere, I'm right here!
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Life is not a spectator sport.
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps the greatness of tomorrow.
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I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected
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