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  • Jackie Robinson is a true legend. -- Sidney Poitier
  • Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson. -- Willie Mays
  • When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career. -- Ernie Harwell
  • After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that. -- Reggie Jackson
  • To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved. -- Sidney Poitier
  • Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Every year we discuss Jackie Robinson Day, which is April 15. We talk about it throughout baseball, promote it throughout baseball. -- Curtis Granderson
  • Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive. -- Lou Brock
  • It's not every day you get to be in a movie about Jackie Robinson, so you want to do it as right as you can. -- Andre Holland
  • I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, the first 'Negro' in the major leagues. -- Cheech Marin
  • Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority. -- Timothy Noah
  • As much as I loved Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, and Don Newcombe, I loved watching Willie Mays play more than all of them combined, even if he played for the 'bad guys!' -- Cheech Marin
  • 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. -- Maurice Ashley
  • All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made the game available to guys like me. -- Dave Winfield
  • I liked Jackie Robinson because he was cool to watch, not because he was black. Every time you turned around, he was hitting a triple or making a great play in the field or, best of all, stealing home. -- Cheech Marin
  • Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation. -- Willie Mays
  • If I was the Jackie Robinson of golf, I sure didn't do a very good job of it. Jackie was followed by hundreds of great black ballplayers who have transformed their sport... But there are hardly any black kids coming up through the ranks of golf today. -- Charlie Sifford
  • 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. -- Chadwick Boseman
  • What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league. -- Walter Dean Myers
  • Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's. -- Sidney Poitier
  • Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's. -- Carlos Beltran
  • I jack, I rob, I sin. Aw man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen -- Jay-Z
  • I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up? -- Ken Burns
  • Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive -- Lou Brock
  • I've done radio interviews about this movie [42]. I feel I'm a part of this movie, since I knew Jackie Robinson. I was at his first game. -- Larry King
  • He struck a mighty blow for equality, freedom and the American way of life. Jackie Robinson was a good citizen, a great man, and a true American champion. -- Ronald Reagan
  • What I think is really great about this movie [42], that young people who weren't there will have a chance to have the visceral experience of what Jackie Robinson went through. -- Harrison Ford
  • I noticed when I was driving around that they changed the name of the Interborough Parkway to the Jackie Robinson Parkway. And the Interborough family is very upset about this... -- Andy Kindler
  • There is an incredible film, 42. It's the incredible story of Jackie Robinson. I have extolled the virtues of this movie to everyone I meet. I've given quotes to everyone I talk to. -- Larry King
  • When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire. -- Langston Hughes
  • He (Jackie Robinson) was the greatest competitor I've ever seen. I've seen him beat a team with his bat, his ball, his glove, his feet and, in a game in Chicago one time, with his mouth. -- Duke Snider
  • We met in an airport in Las Vegas, Harrison Ford and I, and he said, "I just finished a movie called 42. I play Branch Rickey. There's this kid in it playing Jackie Robinson. I think it's a pretty good movie." -- Larry King
  • All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • He (Jackie Robinson) knew he had to do well. He knew that the future of blacks in baseball depended on it. The pressure was enormous, overwhelming, and unbearable at times. I don't know how he held up. I know I never could have. -- Duke Snider
  • The catch off Bobby Morgan (a backhanded grab of the Brooklyn Dodger's line drive in September 1951 at Ebbets Field) in Brooklyn was the best catch I ever made. Jackie Robinson and (Giants manager) Leo Durocher were the first people I saw when I opened my eyes -- Willie Mays
  • People look at black pride in America and sport's impact on it. In the major cities it took off the first time Jackie Robinson stole home. In the deep South, it started with Eddie Robinson, who took a small college in northern Louisiana with little or no funds and sent the first black to the pros and made everyone look at him and Grambling. -- Jerry Izenberg
  • A champion, he said, wins a World Series or an Olympic and is hoisted on the shoulders of teammates and fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders. Champions live for the moment- heroes, like Jackie Robinson, transcend time. -- Sharon Robinson
  • I used to tell Jackie (Robinson) sometimes when they were throwing at him, 'Jackie, they aren't throwing at you because you are black. They are throwing at you because they don't like you. -- Pee Wee Reese
  • This guy don't come to the ballpark to beat you. He comes to beat you bad. This (Jackie) Robinson, he plays a ton. -- Leo Durocher
  • There was never a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than (Jackie) Robinson. -- Branch Rickey
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