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jackie robinson quotes on time
But you can get those at any ballpark at any time. โjackie robinson It was mostly insults, but you can get those at any ballpark at any time. โjackie robinson

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. โJackie Robinson The right of every American to firstโclass citizenship is the most important issue of our time. โJackie Robinson 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. โJackie Robinson Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind. โJackie Robinson

jackie robinson quotes on baseball
If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball. โJackie Robinson Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead. โJackie Robinson

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea. โJackie Robinson In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted. โJackie Robinson It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated. โJackie Robinson 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. โJackie Robinson

jackie robinson quotes on life
During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. โJackie Robinson Life is not a spectator sport. โJackie Robinson
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jackie robinson quotes on black
I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made. โJackie Robinson 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. โJackie Robinson

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job. โJackie Robinson The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime. โJackie Robinson When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go. โJackie Robinson I’m grateful for all the breaks and honors and opportunities I’ve had, but I always believe I won’t have it made until the humblest black kid in the most remote backwoods of America has it made. โJackie Robinson

But as I write these words now I cannot stand and sing the National Anthem. I have learned that I remain a black in a white world. โJackie Robinson Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back? โJackie Robinson I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party. โJackie Robinson I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces โJackie Robinson

jackie robinson quotes on concerned
I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected โJackie Robinson I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking meโฆ All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. โJackie Robinson

jackie robinson quotes on people
Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect. โJackie Robinson No matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with. โJackie Robinson

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it. โJackie Robinson We’re in a real crisis situation where many times people are being turned away at the door. โ Jackie Robinson If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say firstโclass citizenship. โJackie Robinson 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. โJackie Robinson

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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations. โJackie Robinson I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect. โJackie Robinson We have a social responsibility and we are held to a higher standard than other institutions, โ Jackie Robinson I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here! โJackie Robinson

I’ve been riding on cloud nine since the election (HOF), and I don’t think I’ll ever come down. Today, everything is complete. โ Jackie Robinson You’re going to be a great player, kid. โJackie Robinson I don’t let my mouth say nothin’ my head can’t stand. โJackie Robinson This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done. โ Jackie Robinson

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. โJackie Robinson It isn’t a perfect America and it isn’t run right, but it still belongs to us. โ Jackie Robinson I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do. โJackie Robinson 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. โJackie Robinson


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