African american Quote by Bob Cousy

[The World Series] introduced me for the first time to a team with a lot of black players. Detroit had about three of them:…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I was one of those athletic African players.

— Masai Ujiri

My teammates at Duke - all of them, black and white - were a band of brothers who came together to play at the…

— Grant Hill

Don Cooper, my pitching coach in Chicago, he was the best for me for the start of my career. I will always appreciate our…

— Chris Sale

I was a Black man before I was a basketball player.

— Jerami Grant

Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was…

— Richard Widmark

When I signed for Spurs, I was the only black player in the team.

— Chris Hughton

I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because I was…

— Walter Dean Myers

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed…

— Ryne Sandberg

When I started out, I was a basketball player at Texas Wesleyan University.

— The Undertaker

The school I went to was a little farm school in Wannaska, student body 61 or something. There was a kid, the only black…

— Garrett Hedlund

I played with Tristan Thompson and Cory Joseph. They were my high school teammates.

— Avery Bradley