That said, the best part of South Western Athletic Conference (SWAC) games, IMO, is the halftime show.
Robinson said he tried to coach each player as if he wanted him to marry his daughter.
When he began his career, Robinson had no paid assistants, no groundskeepers, no trainers and little in the way of equipment. He had to line the field himself and fix lunchmeat sandwiches for road trips because the players could not eat in the "white only" restaurants of the South.
He was not bitter, however. "The best way to enjoy life in America is to first be an American, and I don't think you have to be white to do so," Robinson said. "Blacks have had a hard time, but not many Americans haven't."
Robinson said he tried to teach his players about opportunity.
"The framers of this Constitution, now they did some things," Robinson would say. "If you aren't lazy, they fixed it for you. You've got to understand the system. It's just like in football, if you don't understand the system, you haven't got a chance."
Neither of Robinson's parents graduated from high school — he was the son of a cotton sharecropper and a domestic worker — and they encouraged him to stay in school and get a college degree.