Quotes About Inclusion

Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.

I used to play football with a load of lads, and I would be like a secret agent going out with a hat on so they wouldn't see my hair in a bun.

Young boys and girls should be given the chance to play football.

I looked into the rule book, and I never seen a rule of only two-handed players can play football.

I wanted to play football and wear the Indian jersey, but there was no women's football team.

If you speak to girls who play football alongside lads, they'll tell you that you almost have to earn the right to play with them. It's annoying that you have to do that, but once you've done it, the barriers are down.

I remember I used to play football in my childhood and my team had people from different faiths and backgrounds. It had the son of the person who would take us to the school on his rickshaw or the guy who came to pick up our garbage but I never knew this.

Every player has played with gay guys.

The door can never be closed for good to any player.

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

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

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.

I learned how not to be alone in the playground.

It's about the music, not the color of the person playing the music.

Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.

Let everybody compete on a level playing field.

I think if we could just level the playing field in life as much as possible, then we'd all be in a much better place.

While Airbnb cannot singlehandedly level the playing field for women, I believe we can play a role in enabling women around the world to follow their passions and design the lives they want.

That's my passion. To make sure everybody is treated equally. To make sure we get equal justice. To make sure that everybody is on the same level playing field.

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

When I was in school, I didn't get exposed to Latino playwrights.

I'm often accused of hiring people with civil rights experience, and I do plead guilty to that.

If you've never seen people taking the pledge of allegiance for the first time as U.S. Citizens, it will move you: a room full of people who can really appreciate what I was lucky enough to grow up with, simply by being born in Brooklyn.

Playing an alien gave me plenty of scope, and I was able to develop it once I became a member of the team.