Quotes from Jason Whitlock

But I'm not a political partisan. I don't vote.

The greatest obstacle to success is an excuse.

I wanted to leave ESPN when control of 'The Undefeated' was taken from me.

In the immediate aftermath of the civil-rights movement, Democrats marketed liberalism to us as fashionable, sophisticated and liberating. Today it needs a surgeon general's warning: hazardous to your family and the values you were taught as a child.

Sports culture has long had a major impact on American culture. The values taught and celebrated in sports are conservative.

Professional sports have built themselves on the celebration of Americana, the ideas and values that best exemplify America.

Great wealth creates an arrogance and, to be quite frank, a god complex in some people that they start feeling like they can do no wrong, they own people, they're superior to other people.

ESPN is the exact network Deadspin desired. It's diverse on its surface, progressive in its point of view, and more concerned with spinning media narratives than with the quality of its product.

Self-analysis is the sworn enemy of regret-free living.

Men do really dumb things. We see weapons of mass destruction where there are none. We over-emphasize sports. We place athletic achievement ahead of academic achievement. We spoil and pamper child athletes and then complain when they act spoiled and pampered as adults.

The more popular and entertaining college basketball is, the more popular the NBA would be.

Segregation has never been a shadowy, impossible-to-pin-down conspiracy. It's been an American way of life.

Mob rule is dangerous. Well-intentioned, TV-baited mobs are the most dangerous. They do not consider the consequences of their actions, and they're prone to take a simple-minded, instant-gratification approach to justice rather than a strategic one.

Managing the Royals is a job for a man playing without a full deck.

There is a business built around racial grievance. And that business is booming at such a level that white people are like hey, I'm going to adopt a whole new identity so I can benefit from being Baby Al Sharpton, Baby Jesse Jackson, and in academia, this has been embraced and she has been able to pull off this scam.

As the lone black host at two different all-sports stations, black callers and listeners dominated my show. Black advertisers did not. The show was financially supported primarily by white businesses, and the largest demographic for listener growth was white males.

It is not, nor will it ever be, white people's responsibility to teach black children our unique American history.

Racism is an issue in America but is primarily an issue for the poor. It's not LeBron James' issue.

The sacrifices you make in your 20s pay off 30 and 40 years later. The same is true when it comes to financial progress. Every dime saved in your 20s turns into a dollar in your 60s.

You can be authentic without being distasteful or disrespectful.

False equivalency is the lifeblood of American public debate.

The Democratic Party, the mainstream media are using fear to control people and to control African Americans in particular. You cannot function properly if you live in an irrational fear.

Dez Bryant isn't a quarterback. He's not a leader. He's a talented, high-maintenance wide receiver.

If you engage with the police, filled with fear, you're more likely to make really bad decisions that than provoke them to take action.