Jackie Robinson Quotes About Baseball
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Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
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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.
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You're going to be a great player, kid.
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I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces
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I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
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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.
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If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.
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I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected
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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.
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