Quotes About Diversity

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

But in Hollywood especially, I think the most exciting thing for me is to finally see that LGBTQ parts are being played by LGBTQ actors.

The first time I ever played Glastonbury I would have never have thought that a grime artist would have ever headlined it.

I've played a couple of gay characters onstage, and it's always been something I'm comfortable with. I grew up in a family and a culture that doesn't have stigmas about sexuality.

Getting to play a role that hasn't been played is such an honor.

Anyone can play Henry VIII. I mean, even Robert Shaw... has played it.

I know I'm black. Everyone knows I'm black. But I don't want to be defined as a black hockey player.

Every player has played with gay guys.

If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.

Every player is motivated by different things and needs to be addressed accordingly.

I'm a different player. I'm a different person - large feet, big hands.

What's wrong with being a two-sport athlete? You've got Deion Sanders. You've got Bo Jackson. You've got Michael Jordan; he wasn't a very good baseball player. There's nothing wrong with crossing over.

I am not a person who says I must talk the same way to every player, I don't agree with this. Some are more introspective, we must act in a different way, the fuel of every player is different.

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

There are already gay players in the NFL and have been for a while.

I was very lucky to have fantastic leaders before me in Paul Kelly, Leo Barry, Brett Kirk, Craig Bolton, Mick O'Loughlin and Stuart Maxfield, and all of those players led in completely different ways.

I don't think there's been that many indigenous players in Australia.

I've played lacrosse players, football players, basketball players. I think that's just because of how I'm built. I look young, and I'm also a big person.

If I look at my era, you looked at the black players who were playing then and there weren't many - Clyde Best... Certainly as each generation has gone, there have been role models for young black players to aspire to.

Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd.

I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.

English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.

The indie film scene was like a playground for me, which allowed me to try all sorts of things without being judged.

Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.