93 Quotes by Jackie Robinson


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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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    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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    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.

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

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    We have a social responsibility and we are held to a higher standard than other institutions,

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