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Jackie Robinson Quotes

«I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.»
Author: Jackie Robinson | About: Respect | Keywords: concerned, disliking, liking
«A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.»
Author: Jackie Robinson | Keywords: impact
«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.»
«Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.»
«There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.»
«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.»
Author: Jackie Robinson | About: Baseball | Keywords: figured
«The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.»
«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.»
«How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.»
Author: Jackie Robinson | About: Past, Play
«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.»

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