Quotes About Diversity

Racism still exists in the sport of boxing.

But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.

I don't think you have to be this macho man all the time, just because you play sport.

Sport allows people to come together, but politics divides people.

Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

I have nothing against nobody in the UFC. This is a sport for me.

I want to be a great role model to let the kids, especially black kids, that it's possible to make it in this sport. I think we, as a black community, quit playing the game because we think it's a white man's sport. Or we think that since other black people don't play it, so why should I play it.

American leagues - baseball, ice hockey, American football and basketball - you are the best. But in a global sport like soccer, you're not.

Music is not a sport - one is not better than the other. You just like what you like and get inspired.

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

The more people who come from abroad who played soccer and are brought up playing it and watching it, then come over to America and bring what they know and what they play, that's how the sport will grow.

My father was a Republican and my mother was a Democrat. In Michigan, we always fought about sports, not politics.

I am from a south Indian Tamilian family, so all my cousins are into academics and I alone was in sports.

I was always very physical, growing up, and did sports. I like to get out and do different things, and walk in different shoes. I like change. I like challenge.

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

We still have a long way to go. Because the reality is that I'm 52-years-old. And how many 55 to 60-year-old women do you see in sports broadcasting? How many? I see a lot of 60-year-old men broadcasting. The physical appearance and natural aging of all the men doing this job don't matter.

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

All combat sports are connected.

I've given many lessons in many sports over the years to many different people.

I didn't have a hero playing in sports that looked like me.

I was a bouncer, if you can believe it for a while in a sports bar. I let everybody in.