Athlete Quote by Michael Johnson

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't…

— Michael Johnson

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

— Michael Johnson

I learned that not only am I a descendant of slaves, but that I am also a descendant of royalty, that there are politicians…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

I am the descendant of slaves, of people that were born from a slave and a slave master.

— Cory Booker

If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.

— Ntozake Shange

I wasn't a natural-born athlete. I was made.

— Trevor Bauer

I'm sure many people who discover they are destined to be athletes before they know what kind, go through a period of revelation... when…

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I found it tough to follow an athlete's lifestyle. But soon, it became a part of my life, and I embraced it.

— Ritika Singh

I was always an athlete; my grandfather and my dad are basketball players, and I played sports my whole life.

— Juliana Harkavy

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

— James A. Baldwin

I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of…

— Jim Thorpe