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

Jackie Robinson is a true legend.

I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.

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

As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn't come in '47, me and Ron Santo wouldn't have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.

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

Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.

In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever.

I liked Jackie Robinson because he was cool to watch, not because he was black. Every time you turned around, he was hitting a triple or making a great play in the field or, best of all, stealing home.

Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation.