Jackie Robinson

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.

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

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

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Plenty of times I wanted to haul off when somebody insulted me for the color of my skin, but I had to hold to myself. I knew I was kind of an experiment. The whole thing was bigger than me.

No matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will

I’m taking more time to listen to myself. It’s allowed me to be an aggressive bad ass, calling it as I see it

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Round numbers are always false.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

Every artist was first an amateur.

It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.