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- Here's one place nobody draws the color line.
- Yeah. Great job for a college man.

6 seconds sound clip from the The Jackie Robinson Story movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:09:40.649 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Can't it wait till you graduate?

- What good will a degree do me? They're not hiring colored football coaches. Not our color, anyway.

- Don't you wanna play baseball this season?

- What good'll that do me? Baseball's one sport they'll never let me in.

- Yeah. It's your best sport, too.

- I wonder if there's any place where they will let you in.

- Here's one place nobody draws the color line.

- Yeah. Great job for a college man.

- It may not be a great job, but it's steady.

- Nice going in that half, Jackie.

- Thanks a lot.

- What's this I hear about you quitting?

- Yeah, right after the basketball season.

- We'll miss ya, fella. You got a job lined up?

- No, not yet.

- What about those letters we sent to the high schools?

- Any answers?

- Three.

- What'd they say?

- Well, the first school didn't want me for a coach, the second school didn't want me for a coach, and the third school, they just didn't want me.

[...]

The Jackie Robinson Story Sound Clip

The Jackie Robinson Story Poster

Memorable voice quotes from the biographical film The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), starring Jackie Robinson as himself.

Actors: Jackie Robinson (Himself), Ruby Dee (Rae Robinson), Minor Watson (Branch Rickey), Louise Beavers (Jackie's mother)

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