93 Quotes by Jackie Robinson

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known - Nominee Barry Goldwater.

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

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.

The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.