Jackie Robinson Quotes

"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
(Related: Baseball, Losing, Poker)

"This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done."
- Jackie Robinson
(Related: Fun)

"There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free."
- Jackie Robinson
(Related: American, Country)

"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
(Related: Baseball)

"The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time."
- Jackie Robinson
(Related: Time, American, Citizenship, First, Right)

"Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade."
- Jackie Robinson
(Related: Flies, Sense, Trade)

"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."
- Jackie Robinson
(Related: Being, Respect)

"How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts."
- Jackie Robinson
(Related: Yesterday)

"Above anything else, I hate to lose."
- Jackie Robinson
(Related: Hate)

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."
- Jackie Robinson
(Related: Life)

"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."
- Jackie Robinson
(Related: Politics, Party, Vote)

"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
(Related: Winning, First, Losing, Temper)