Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. His full name is Jack Roosevelt Robinson. Jackie Robinson was an American baseballer and also the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the new era. He broke the baseball line when started the first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the year of 1947. In 10-years of MLB, Jackie Robinson won the Rookie of the Year Award in 47, As the first black player won All-Star for 6 continue seasons from 49 to 54, and also won the NL- Most Valuable Player Award in 49. In 97, MLB retired Jackie Robinson No. 42 in all major league teams as honoured. MLB also make a new annual Jackie Robinson Day, for the 1st time on April 15, 2004, on that day every player every team wears number 42. He dies on October 24, 1972, at the age of 53, in Stamford, Connecticut. After his death, Jackie Robinson awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal for his achievements. We at Lessons Learned In Life love to share the Jackie Robinson Quotes on Motivation and Inspiration. We compile the Top 32 Inspiring Jackie Robinson Quotes for you to be inspired and find them comforting and helpful in your life.
Inspirational Jackie Robinson Quotes Of Motivation:
1.“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”― Jackie Robinson
2.“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”― Jackie Robinson
3.“Above anything else, I hate to lose.”― Jackie Robinson
4.“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”― Jackie Robinson
5.“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
6.“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
7.“There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.”― Jackie Robinson
8.“The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.”― Jackie Robinson
9.“A life isn’t significant except for its impact on others’ lives.”― Jackie Robinson
10.“Life is not a spectator sport.”― Jackie Robinson
11.“How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.”― Jackie Robinson
12.“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
13.“The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.”― 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.“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.”“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
16.“Negroes aren’t seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong — economically, defensively and morally — we cannot afford the waste of having second- and third-class citizens.”― Jackie Robinson
17.“Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?”― Jackie Robinson
18.“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 be given the things that are rightfully ours and that we’re not looking for anything else.”― Jackie Robinson
19.“Negroes aren’t seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong — economically, defensively and morally — we cannot afford the waste of having second- and third-class citizens.”― Jackie Robinson
20.“I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!”― Jackie Robinson
21.“I don’t like needing anyone for anything.”― Jackie Robinson
22.“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
23.“This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.”― Jackie Robinson
24.“I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces”― Jackie Robinson
25.“Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.”― Jackie Robinson
26.“Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.”― Jackie Robinson
27.“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
28.“I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.”― Jackie Robinson
29.“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
30.“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
31.“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.”― Jackie Robinson
32.“If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball― Jackie Robinson
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