Jack Robinson was an African-American professional baseball player.
Best Jackie Robinson Quotes
1. “In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
2. “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).
3. “How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
4. “I don’t let my mouth say nothin’ my head can’t stand” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
5. “If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
6. “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).
7. “Above anything else, I hate to lose.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
8. “The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
9. “I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
10. “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).
Famous Jackie Robinson Quotes
11. “Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
12. “I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
13. “There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
14. “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).
15. “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).
16. “This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
17. “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
18. “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.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
19. “Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
20. “We’re in a real crisis situation where many times people are being turned away at the door.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
Top Jackie Robinson Quotes
21. “The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
22. “I think it was one of the greatest times ever in the world to play baseball. Television was in its infancy. Breaking the color barrier.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
23. “I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
24. “You’re going to be a great player, kid.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
25. “It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
26. “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).
27. “This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
28. “Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
29. “I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
30. “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).
31. “I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
Popular Jackie Robinson Quotes
32. “I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
33. “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 are given the things that are rightfully ours and that we’re not looking for anything else.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
34. “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).
35. “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).
36. “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).
37. “When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
38. “I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
39. “I’m grateful for all the breaks and honors and opportunities I’ve had, but I always believe I won’t have it made until the humblest black kid in the most remote backwoods of America has it made.” ~ (Jackie Robinson)., I Never Had It…
40. “I don’t like needing anyone for anything.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
41. “A life isn’t significant except for its impact on other lives.” ~ (Jackie Robinson).
