Athletes Quote by Clint Smith Download Open image “Supporting black professional athletes was taken seriously in my home.” — Clint Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Athletes Black Home Seriously Sports Taken
I wanted to represent African-American athletes in a better way than what I saw when I grew up. — Ahmad Rashad Copy Share Image
Growing up in New Orleans, I was always the only black kid, or one of two, on the school soccer team. While I was… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about… — Barry Larkin Copy Share Image
“When there is more concern for white sports fans in the vicinity of a riot than the black people facing off with police, there… — Cindy Milstein Copy Share Image
When a country doesn't respect Black lives, maybe it doesn't deserve to be entertained by Black athletes. — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image
I feel that my advances in the business world will shatter a lot of white myths about black athletes-and give some pride and hope… — O. J. Simpson Copy Share Image
There's a long history and a pattern of Black athletes - and Black people, period - being told to shut up and accept whatever… — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image
When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the… — Ruud Gullit Copy Share Image
I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school.… — Monte Irvin Copy Share Image
I think sports has done a disservice for a lot of black kids thinking they can only be successful through athletics and entertainment. I… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
If our principles are only our principles when it is convenient for us, when they align with our visceral emotional responses, then they are,… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree in private… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
America's economy cannot be disentangled from the free labor that built it, just as America's culture cannot be unbound from the black artists who… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
In sixth grade, my status as a Boy Scout was not something I went out of my way to share. In fact, I spent… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few will admit… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an impact on… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
It's important for closet gay athletes everywhere, not just at the professional level, but more importantly athletes at the younger level in high school… — Scott Fujita Copy Share Image
Somewhere behind the athlete you have become, and hours if practice is a little girl who picked up a ball, fell in love with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We've all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Sometimes women get devastated by failing. Athletes don't; they just know that means they've got to practise harder, and they've got to do something… — Beth Brooke Copy Share Image
There are not a lot of athletes that are going to get their own shoe. — Keyshawn Johnson Copy Share Image
Gender equality cannot be achieved by cutting programs that allow girls to get the same chance to compete, learn, and play. The United States… — Linda Sanchez Copy Share Image
