Black Athlete Quotes

#1. Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

Yannick Noah

#2. Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.

Arthur Ashe

#3. But she understood how to interpret shadows.

Claudia Gray

#4. I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].

Jim Thorpe

#5. Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.

William Faulkner

#6. What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

Tony Scott

#7. They believe one becomes selfless in love because one desires the advantage of another human being, often against one's own advantage. But in return for that they want to possess the other person.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. I read many years ago that Billy Graham's wife, Ruth, was asked, "How is your marriage so successful?" She replied, "Because he plays golf, and I play bridge." Ruth Bell Graham understood the value of outside sources of life for a marriage to flourish.

Henry Cloud

#9. You achieve greatness, not by accumulating wealth, but by becoming king, loving, forgiving, and simple.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Isn't it interesting, that a black man, who is a Muslim, and has the name 'Muhammad', is the most beloved athlete in the world?

Hamza Yusuf

#11. I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we do? How do we solve it?"

Laura Ziskin

#12. Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#13. A woman is a blue sky with flying white clouds of emotions.

Debasish Mridha

#14. I kind of rode this weird line between athlete and artist. It was a little different because most of the athletes were total jocks, and most of the artists dressed in black and were kind of considered a little on the fringe. But I hung out with both crowds in my high school.

Terry Crews

#15. When I was a kid and we played baseball we used to use that "eye black" stuff sometimes - that kind of grease you put under your eyes to reduce glare or something. We only used it, of course, to look cool; it's not like we were any better prepubescent athletes for reducing glare.

Ben Lerner

#16. Dinosaurs didn't read. Look what happened to them!

Internet Humor

#17. But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

Bear Grylls

#18. I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

Serena Williams

#19. I feel that my advances in the business world will shatter a lot of white myths about black athletes-and give some pride and hope to a lot of young blacks.

O.J. Simpson

#20. Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn't. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things.

Dhani Jones

#21. Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

Akhil Sharma

#22. you cloak your offence by ignorance, saying that you did not know my determination in this matter. it is a double offence to do ill and color it so.

Julia Fox