재키 로빈슨
There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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.
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.
I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
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.
How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
Above anything else, I hate to lose.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
다른 사람의 삶에 준 영향이 없는 삶은 아무 것도 아니다.
인생은 구경만 하는 스포츠가 아니다.
야구는 포커 게임과 같다. 잃고 있을 때 그만두고 싶어하는 사람은 없고, 따고 있을 때 그만두고 싶어하는 사람도 없다.
무엇보다도 난 지는 걸 싫어한다.
파크
권리는 어느 곳에나 도리를 벗어난 곳에서는 존재할수 없다.
로자 파크스
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
All I was doing was trying to get home from work.