Jackie Quotes

• When Toots finally could breathe again and the blood returned to his brain, he recalled that he had not passed or been passed by Jackie at any time in the race. Toots never used foul language but he came close that night. Jackie paid.

  Audrey Meadows

  Night, Race, Blood

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• Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Athlete, Equality

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• Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.

  Audrey Meadows

  Eye, Elephants, Talent

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• As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.

  Pierre Salinger

  Loyalty, Kennedy Family, Firsts

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

  Ernie Harwell

  Careers, Brooklyn, Height

  Tom Keegan, Ernie Harwell (2002). “Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball”, Triumph Books (IL)

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

  Reggie Jackson

  Funny, Baseball, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Lou Brock

  Sports, Kings, Pride

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• I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Thinking, Gone, Feminine

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• Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.

  Sidney Poitier

  Easy, Mines

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• Jackie Robinson is a true legend.

  Sidney Poitier

  Legends

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• To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

  Sidney Poitier

  Thinking, Compliment, Enormous

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• I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

  Elvis Presley

  Four, Shows, Ed Sullivan

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• I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie, Character, Trying

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 10, 2003.

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• I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.

  Chiaki Kuriyama

  Looks, Enjoy

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• Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.

  Audrey Meadows

  Return, World, Comeback

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• Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Looks, Pocketbooks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.

  Pierre Salinger

  Husband, Wonderful, Week

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• When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.

  Marc Maron

  Kids, Europe, Young

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• A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.

  Jackie Chan

  People, Scared, Stunting

  Twitter post from Jul 06, 2014

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• In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.

  Jackie Chan

  Dog, Past, People

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  Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

  Jackie Chan

  Trying, Computer, Study

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.

  Jackie Chan

  Years, People, Asia

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• I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.

  Leonard Cohen

  Queens, Heart, Design

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.232, Vintage

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• I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

  Jackie Collins

  Sex, Writing, Men

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• There never has been a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than Robinson.

  Branch Rickey

  Men, Games, Mind

  "The American diamond: a documentary of the game of baseball".

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