There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
Jackie RobinsonRead
When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Focus on your passions during dedicated time and separate work from personal life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of leaving work behind at the end of the day and fully engaging in personal life. Jackie Robinson highlights the distinction between his professional responsibilities in baseball and his role as a father, suggesting that one's personal relationships and family should not be overshadowed by work commitments.
Themes
BaseballFamilyWork-Life BalanceCommitmentParenting
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about work-life balance.
More from Jackie Robinson
All quotes →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.
Jackie RobinsonRead
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 RobinsonRead
I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
Jackie RobinsonRead
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 RobinsonRead
When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
Jackie RobinsonRead
Similar quotes
A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?
Wes CravenRead
We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.
Russell BrandRead
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry David ThoreauRead
Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything... ♥
Paulo CoelhoRead
It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.
John GreenRead
My ideal setting is I walk from the streets, backstage, and straight onto the stage. Two minutes, and I am on the stage. That way, in my head I have gone from my world and then into a social setting with my friends.
Trevor NoahRead