Jackie Robinson famous quotes

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

#Inspirational #Life #Basketball

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 #Respect

Above anything else, I hate to lose.
-- Jackie Robinson

#Hate #I Hate

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

#Motivational #Sports #Baseball

I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
-- Jackie Robinson

#Inspirational #Acceptance

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.
-- Jackie Robinson

#Lines #May #Way

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

#Country #African American

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

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

#Treasure #Dignity #Possession

Life is not a spectator sport.
-- Jackie Robinson

#Sports #Life Is #Spectators

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

#Success #Women #Impact

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

#Reality #Games #Yesterday

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

#Class #Issues #Democracy

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

#Party #Independent #Issues

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

#Baseball #Games #Done

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 #Games #Want

Are you looking for a Negro who won't fight back?
-- Jackie Robinson

#Fighting

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

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.
-- Jackie Robinson

#Thinking #Citizens #Should

I don't like needing anyone for anything.
-- Jackie Robinson

I'm not goin' anywhere, I'm right here!
-- Jackie 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.
-- Jackie Robinson

#Thinking #Winning #Firsts

I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces
-- Jackie Robinson

#Baseball #Pieces #Trophies

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

#Fun #Watches #Done

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

#Memories #Forever #Mind

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

#Believe #Greatness #Past

I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected
-- Jackie Robinson

#Baseball #Concerned

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

#Pops #Trade #Diversion

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

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

#Believe #Thinking #Matter

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

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

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.
-- Jackie Robinson

#Sports #Baseball #Selfish

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

#Race #Civil Rights #Fields

You're going to be a great player, kid.
-- Jackie Robinson

#Baseball #Kids #Player