If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball. — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated. — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade. — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea. — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over,… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea. — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade. — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball. — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship. — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
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… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
