Jackie Robinson Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Jackie Robinson:
I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
~Jackie Robinson
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When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.
~Jackie Robinson
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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.
~Jackie Robinson
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
~Jackie Robinson
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
~Jackie Robinson
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
~Jackie Robinson
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I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.
~Jackie Robinson
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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.
~Jackie Robinson
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I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
~Jackie Robinson
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
~Jackie Robinson
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
~Jackie Robinson
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Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
~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.
~Jackie Robinson
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A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.
~Jackie Robinson
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
~Jackie Robinson
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
~Jackie Robinson
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This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
~Jackie Robinson
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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.
~Jackie Robinson
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
~Jackie Robinson
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
~Jackie Robinson
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In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.
~Jackie Robinson
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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
~Jackie Robinson
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I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
~Jackie Robinson
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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.
~Jackie Robinson
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
~Jackie Robinson
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
~Jackie Robinson
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I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
~Jackie Robinson
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During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known - Nominee Barry Goldwater.
~Jackie Robinson
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