Abuse Quote by Ruud Gullit

I have been racially abused by fans and players, but sometimes it's just a way to get under your skin.

— Edgar Davids

There wasn't a game in the Eighties when you didn't get racial abuse as a black player.

— John Barnes

I am doing my job and trying to win a game for my team. I shouldn't be getting racially abused; it's silly.

— Jermain Defoe

I was a player who was vying to do exactly what everyone else was doing, and I happened to be black.

— Katrina Adams

You can get racially abused 10 times before you even reach the football stadium. If you've been confronted every day with something like that,…

— Edgar Davids

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 played on many a team where I was the only black girl.

— Crystal Dunn

Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings…

— Gary Sheffield

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

— Marcel Desailly

There weren't many black players when I was growing up, and I remember playing and looking up to the ones that were playing.

— Jarome Iginla

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

As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.

— Miles Davis