On Jackie Robinson Day

“It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first

—”To do what he did has got to be the most tremendous thing I’ve ever seen in sports.” — Pee Wee Reese

 

Jackie Robinson joins a picket line in Cleveland in 1960 to protest discrimination against Blacks at lunch counters.