Quotes by Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson

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

Basketball

Inspirational

Life

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

Impact

Success

Women

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Hate

I Hate

Opening Day Baseball

Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?

Fighting

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.

Anthem

Emotion

World

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.

Baseball

Selfish

Sports

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

Games

Reality

Yesterday

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.

Believe

Past

Success

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.

Citizens

Should Have

Thinking

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

Believe

Matter

Thinking

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Baseball

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Believe

Black

Challenges

Change

Citizens

Class

Diversion

Done

Dream

Emotion

Fighting

Forever

Friendship

Fun

Games

Girl

Hate

I Hate

Impact

Inspirational

Kids

Life

Lines

Matter

May

Memories

Men

Motivational

Oath Of Office

Opening Day Baseball

Order

Past

People

Pieces

Player

Pops

Reality

Selfish

Should Have

Sports

Stars

Strong

Success

Thinking

Trade

Trophies

Watches

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Quotes by Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson

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

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

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?

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.

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.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

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.

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

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