Africans Quote by Richard H. Steckel

I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players…

— Yaya Toure

Africa has proven to produce some of the greatest athletes in the world, and it's a joy to be able to help grow that…

— Masai Ujiri

African soccer has grown to the extent that the majority of its players are playing for European teams and that is very good as…

— Cafu

There is so many good people in Africa. And a huge talent among the football players.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

I was taller than most of the kids. When I started playing basketball, my coach put me at point guard. Europeans do that sometimes.

— Vlade Divac

There are so many kids in Africa who adore these athletes in the NBA and see themselves in them, even though we're so far…

— Luol Deng

Africa has produced some good players.

— Frank Rijkaard

I want people to say that an African basketball player is the best player in the whole world.

— Joel Embiid

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

— Larry Bird

Researchers in England say tall men are more likely to have more children than short men. Here in America we call that the NBA…

— Jay Leno

In Africa, kids don't look at black athletes and say, 'They're different from us.' They look at them and say, 'That can be me.'

— Luol Deng

There's definitely a lot of undiscovered talent in Africa. If I'm one of them and there's a few other guys in the league, that…

— Joel Embiid