Jackie Robinson Quotes

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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Jackie Robinson

Inspirational, Life, Basketball

"I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson". Book by Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duckett, 1972.

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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

Motivational, Change, Baseball

"The Impact and Legacy Years, 1941, 1947, 1968". p. 100. Book by Fred Pulis, 2000.

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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.

Jackie Robinson

Respect, Mistake, Loneliness

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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

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

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Treasure, Dignity, Possession

Jackie Robinson, Alfred Duckett (2013). “I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson”, p.33, Harper Collins

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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Jackie Robinson

Country, African American, American Citizenship

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A life isn't significant except for its impact on others' lives.

Jackie Robinson

Success, Women, Impact

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I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected

Jackie Robinson

Baseball, Concerned

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I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.

Jackie Robinson

Believe, Thinking, Matter

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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.

Jackie Robinson

Baseball, Class, People

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Life is not a spectator sport.

Jackie Robinson

Sports, Life Is, Spectators

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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.

Jackie Robinson

Success, Believe, Past

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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.

Jackie Robinson

Friendship, Memories, Forever

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This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

Jackie Robinson

Fun, Watches, Done

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I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made.

Jackie Robinson

Men, White, Black

I Never Had It Made introduction (1972)

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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Jackie Robinson

Inspirational, Acceptance

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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.

Jackie Robinson

World, Emotion, Anthem

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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

Baseball, Gambling, Mlb

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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.

Jackie Robinson

Strong, Order, Class

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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.

Jackie Robinson

Girl, Dream, Stars

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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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Lines, May, Way

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Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Jackie Robinson

Hate, I Hate, Opening Day Baseball

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I don't think that I or any other Negro, as an American citizen, should have to ask for anything that is rightfully his. We are demanding that we just be given the things that are rightfully ours and that we're not looking for anything else.

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Thinking, Should Have, Citizens

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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

Jackie Robinson

Class, Issues, Democracy

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It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.

Jackie Robinson

Race, Civil Rights, Fields

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Born: January 31, 1919
Died: October 24, 1972
Occupation: Baseball player
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