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" 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

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" I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it. "

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" Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment. "

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" How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts. "

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" The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity. "

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" During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known - Nominee Barry Goldwater. "

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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. "

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" A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy. "

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" The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me. "

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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. "

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" The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time. "

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" In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea. "

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" My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own. "

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" I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known. "

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" Above anything else, I hate to lose. "

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" Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade. "

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" There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free. "

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" 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. "

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" Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect. "

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" This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done. "

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" A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. "

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" I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens. "

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" 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. "

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" My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions. "

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" I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home. "

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" After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job. "

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" In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted. "

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" I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers. "

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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. "

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