Quotes On Racism In Football

#1. Race was an issue because in every assignment I have had in Special Operations, racism has been as much a part of the social bond as football and fast cars. I never cared for either of them either, but this was special.

Stan Goff

#2. In the beginning was the Word. It doesn't say in the beginning was God. In the beginning was the Word because in the very beginning of every moment of time and space your word counts. Your whole destiny is written in the Word.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#3. Life sucks. Hard. I don't care how melodramatic that sounds, it's the truth and I'm living it.

Maggi Myers

#4. Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism. Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill.

Eamon Dunphy

#5. We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

Kevin Costner

#6. Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football. Men died boxing, yet there was nobility in defending oneself.

Ralph Wiley

#7. [ ... ] rationalism is a form of intellectual bigotry which, in thinking about reality, tries to take it into account as little as possible.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#8. While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.

John C. Maxwell

#9. I believe in nature and humanity and am here to serve the common people of Pakistan. There is a great deal of suffering in this country and I'm here to help.

Abdul Sattar Edhi

#10. If you want your life to stand for peace and kindness, it's helpful to do kind, peaceful things.

Richard Carlson

#11. Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.

Sepp Blatter

#12. Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters.

Simon Heffer

#13. For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.

Rio Ferdinand

#14. For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.

Dan Maffei

#15. All the same, all different. What was it?

Lauren Slater

#16. Look onwards to what lies ahead.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. I want to get into the whole clothing thing, movies, but I just want to make sure that my artistry is locked down.

Bubba Sparxxx

#18. A lot of different races and nationalities play football, so it is a good way to try and stop racism.

Thierry Henry

#19. Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.

Ian Schrager

#20. The same power that stopped the sun and raised Christ from the grave lives in every believer!

Steven Furtick

#21. You have to gain respect from your teammates. You have to earn it.

Daunte Culpepper

#22. When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

Mario Balotelli

#23. I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.

Frank Deford