Quotes About Jackie Robinson Day

#1. Every year we discuss Jackie Robinson Day, which is April 15. We talk about it throughout baseball, promote it throughout baseball.

Curtis Granderson

#2. I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

Virgil

#3. Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#4. What does it mean to go deeper? Taking pictures when you're more emotional or sorrowful, or having sex? I just want to have really boring snapshots - people just standing in front of a camera taking pictures with a smile.

Nikki S. Lee

#5. I do not believe on giving amnesty.

Doug Hoffman

#6. 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

#7. Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.

Olympe De Gouges

#8. morality is moral only when it is voluntary

Lincoln Steffens

#9. If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.

Olivia Cooke

#10. The world is a stage where we come to play and go.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#11. I think there's as much violence, in a way, as a scene with two women having a cup of coffee in a Ruth Rendell novel - in terms of emotional violence and the violence you can inflict with language - as there is in the most graphic kind of serial killer/slasher novel you can think of.

Mark Billingham

#12. True emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.

Emma Goldman

#13. Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.

Branch Rickey

#14. 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

#15. Most people don't associate anythin'
their ideas just roll about like so many dry peas on a tray, makin' a lot of noise and goin' nowhere, but once you begin lettin' 'em string their peas into a necklace, it's goin' to be strong enough to hang you, what?

Dorothy L. Sayers

#16. In convent, I live for 4 months in a broom closet. I do not rot.

Helena

#17. Neurons giveth and neurons taketh away.

Abhijit Naskar

#18. Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.

Dave Ramsey