Abuse Quote by John Barnes

I got racist abuse at Liverpool when I played for Watford. Then I played for Liverpool and didn't get it. If I had played…

— John Barnes

I was brought up in a football environment where we saw a lot of racism - whether it was abuse from other players or…

— Chris Hughton

People think racist abuse stops on the football pitch, but that's just the beginning. When you go home, you are still confronted with it.…

— Edgar Davids

Sometimes, the fact that you're a footballer makes you think that racism can't happen to you because you bring that passion and you express…

— Samuel Eto'o

Racism is not only in football, it's in cricket too. Even within teams as a black man, I get the end of the stick.…

— Chris Gayle

I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of…

— Gary Lineker

Personally I have not encountered racism at matches, or in clubs I have worked in, for many years.

— Neil Warnock

I was one of the first black players in Italian football. But I didn't suffer any racism.

— Marcel Desailly

When you talk about kicking racism out of football, people automatically assume you are talking about on the terraces and on the football field.…

— John Barnes

When I started at Portsmouth in 1974 there was a strong National Front element in the crowd and they would abuse me even though…

— Chris Kamara

Racism has been in football since football started, it's never going away, it's never got better. It's just noticed more because everything is on…

— Andre Gray

If every racist who came to football was silenced, football stadiums would still be full of racists. Racism is everywhere in our society, it…

— John Barnes