Quotes About Community

I was gay before I began to play soccer over 40 years ago. It's been 28 years since a friend and I organized one of the first gay soccer teams in the world.

It is exciting to have two sports teams close to where you live.

I love baseball and love the Indians and all the teams here.

I want our police officers to have the resources and training they need to investigate hate crime fully, and to ensure we have neighborhood police teams that understand and reflect the communities they serve.

I feel fortunate to be a part of a football community that includes leaders who recognize the power of sport to make a difference and who, like so many of my coaches, are defined not only by their knowledge but by their ability to bring out the best in every member of their teams.

I still think of myself as a Philadelphian. I still root for the Philadelphia teams. Other than my house, I still feel most at home in terms of cities when I'm in Philly.

I was captain of the soccer and basketball teams in high school, and I was the equivalent of class president.

I feel like the Philadelphia sports teams are really good at having my back.

When I was a kid in the '60s, I went shopping in downtown Silver Spring. Hecht's, JCPenney, the little retailers - they sponsored all my sports teams.

I will say it loud and clear: at Manchester City, it is all about what you choose to look at. If you look at the money spent on players, you will only ever see that side of City. If you look at the bigger plan, which is investment in the community, facilities, and youth teams, you realise there is heart and soul in this club.

Teamwork can build friendships that last a lifetime.

To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork.

As young Australians, the value of teamwork has been instilled in us throughout our schooling.

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

That whole concept of team and teamwork and team first - that's how Israel, in my opinion, has survived in the Middle East.

I think Japanese people like teamwork. Sometimes they don't try to be No. 1 or different to other people. That can be good but sometimes it means you don't get a dream or a strong goal.

I get racist letters all the time from people who aren't Bradford City supporters. You just laugh at them, tear them up and throw them in the bin.

I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart.

I involve myself in an organisation called Tear Fund.

I've never been one to tear the social fabric.

You cry the first tear because something is genuinely, singularly upsetting. And you cry the second tear because everybody is crying that first tear with you, and you know that.

I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.

The things I rap about are 100 percent real. But at the same time, I don't rap about those things to tear my city down. I give you the reality of what it is and what I been through and how it is living in those conditions in Gary, Ind.

I'm not a hero. The Hongkongers who confronted tear gas in the streets are the heroes.