Jackie Robinson Quotes

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example.

Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.