Jackie Robinson Quotes
Quotes by Jackie Robinson
"Above anything else, I hate to lose."
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."
"There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free."
"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."
"Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead."
"I won't 'have it made' until the most underprivileged Negro in Mississippi can live in equal dignity with anyone else in America."
"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."
"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."
"Baseball was just a part of my life. Thank God that I didn't allow a sport or a business or any part of my life to dominate me completely. . . ."
"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."
"I believe in the goodness of a free society. And I believe that society can remain good only as long as we are willing to fight for it--and to fight against whatever imperfections may exist."
"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."
"Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 per cent strong--economically, defensively, and morally--we cannot afford the waste of having second-and-third class citizens."
"The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time. 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."
"Civil rights is not by any means the only issue that concerns me--nor, I think any other Negro. As Americans, we have as much at stake in this country as anyone else. But since effective participation in a democracy is based upon enjoyment of basic freedoms that everyone else takes for granted, we need make no apologies for being especially interested in catching up on civil rights."
Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Wisdom-of-the-Wise.com
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