Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
— Jackie Robinson Modern

Broke baseball color barrier

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Attributed, often cited in motivational contexts

Date / Period

1950s-1960s

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Strange & Unusual

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