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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
Tags: girl, game, i-am, home

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I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.
— Jackie Robinson
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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.
— 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.
— Jackie Robinson
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I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
— Jackie Robinson
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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
Tags: lose, winning, i-am, me
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