General Quote by Jay Williams

So many athletes are afraid to use their platform to do the right thing and speak what they feel, and that's very depressing. Sure,…

— Martina Navratilova

In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a…

— Pat Boone

For professional athletes, I think we have a responsibility to utilize our platforms to stand for something bigger than our individual selves and to…

— Mike Conley Jr

[Some young athletes] get home, look at social media, and they have thousands of people ripping it out of them, telling them that they're…

— David Haye

There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.

— Ted Simmons

I think athletes are, in general, tired of so much of their persona being controlled by the media.

— Jemele Hill

People treat us and they put us on this pedestal like we're so much better human beings than them because we play a professional…

— Anthony Rendon

I think athletes need to be better at portraying themselves and promoting themselves. You can't just sit and wait for the media to come…

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

We are ambassadors. We are leaders of our own brands, and then in life things are thrown at you, you have to stand up…

— Bubba Wallace

You're starting to see more and more athletes recognizing their reach and how much leverage and power that they have in their celebrity and…

— Malcolm Jenkins

Most athletes act all unhuman and you can't relate to them. I'm the exact opposite.

— Brittney Griner

I believe that athletes have one of the biggest platforms to influence and if their followers don't like what they believe in, they don't…

— Weston McKennie