In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea. Jackie Robinson Read Quote
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. Jackie Robinson Read Quote
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. Jackie Robinson Read Quote
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade. Jackie Robinson Read Quote
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. Jackie Robinson Read Quote
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated. Jackie Robinson Read Quote
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. Jackie Robinson Read Quote
The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with. Jackie Robinson Read Quote
If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball. Jackie Robinson Read Quote
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. Jackie Robinson Read Quote
