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.
Jackie Robinson

Respect, Human, Ask

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

Life, Important, Lives

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

Life, Opinion, Whole

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

Country, Free, American

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

Game, Baseball, Losing

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

Winning, Wanted, Lose

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

Time, Important, American

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

Politics, Another, Vote

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

Game, Baseball, Done

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

Fun, Done, Watch

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
Jackie Robinson

Game, Yesterday, Played

Above anything else, I hate to lose.
Jackie Robinson

Hate, Else, Lose

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
Jackie Robinson

Sense, Second, Trade

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: January 31, 1919

Died: October 24, 1972

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