Jackie Robinson

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

I don’t like needing anyone for anything.

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.

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

I don’t let my mouth say nothin’ my head can’t stand.

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.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

The sun is but a morning star.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.