Jackie Robinson
American baseball player who broke the major-league color barrier, 1919-1972
10 quotes.
Quotes by Jackie Robinson
- A life isn't significant except for its impact on others' lives.
- I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected
- I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
- I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there... I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
- I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
- Life is not a spectator sport.
- 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.
- The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
- 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.
- A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.