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“I don't want to sit there and compare to things I've gone through to what the Black player, the African-American player, goes through.” quote by Ron Rivera — Download Open image

“I don't want to sit there and compare to things I've gone through to what the Black player, the African-American player, goes through.”

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One thing I've learned is you have to treat everybody fair but you're not going to be able to treat everybody the same.

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After Mickey passed, I was talking to my mom on the phone. She was talking about how we were such good brothers and we were so close. And I said, 'Mom, think about how we were raised. We were a military family. And in a military family, because you move around so much, your best friends and your first teammates…

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If you make a mistake, you have to step up and you have to take responsibility.

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I'm fortunate I landed on my feet in Washington.

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