African american Quote by Venus Williams

I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an…

— Willie Mays

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.

— Ron Rivera

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

— Katrina Adams

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

— John Barnes

I was a Black man before I was a basketball player.

— Jerami Grant

I never look at myself as a black player. I think of myself as a hockey player that wants to be the best player…

— P.K. Subban

Growing up in New Orleans, I was always the only black kid, or one of two, on the school soccer team. While I was…

— Clint Smith

I wanted to represent African-American athletes in a better way than what I saw when I grew up.

— Ahmad Rashad

I was branded a Negro in the States and had to act accordingly. They wouldn't even give me a chance in the big leagues…

— Willie Wells

The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.

— Bobby Fischer

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

Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and…

— Walter Dean Myers