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“When it's too hard for them it's just right for us!”
― Marv Levy

“When I was in London in 2008, I spent a couple hours hanging out at a pub with a couple of blokes who were drinking away the afternoon in preparation for going to that evening's Arsenal game/riot. Take away their Cockney accents, and these working-class guys might as well have been a couple of Bubbas gearing up for the Alabama-Auburn game. They were, in a phrase, British rednecks. And this is who soccer fans are, everywhere in the world except among the college-educated American elite. In Rio or Rome, the soccer fan is a Regular Jos茅 or a Regular Giuseppe. [...] By contrast, if an American is that kind of Regular Joe, he doesn't watch soccer. He watches the NFL or bass fishing tournaments or Ultimate Fighting. In an American context, avid soccer fandom is almost exclusively located among two groups of people (a) foreigners鈥擥od bless 'em鈥攁nd (b) pretentious yuppie snobs. Which is to say, conservatives don't hate soccer because we hate brown people. We hate soccer because we hate liberals.”
― Robert Stacy McCain

“I was also proud. Wow. We got under the skin of the president of the United States. I was grateful. Even though he disagreed with us, he turned it into a worldwide conversation. Maybe he wasn鈥檛 willing to have a discussion with us about what we were protesting and why it mattered. No beer summit for us. But his comments did allow for us to go global with the problems of racial inequality in this country.”
― Michael Bennett, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

“I was lucky that I was born bigger and faster than the average Joe, and play a game that people are stupid enough to pay millions of dollars to watch.”
― Winfred Tubbs

“The largest culture shock was being Black in this atmosphere. We had white coaches, and they wanted the Black players to be the embodiment of who they were. They would tell us to wear our pants or shoes a certain way; this is what it meant to 鈥渂e a man.鈥� They thought our path to manhood was to be found in skinny jeans and a tucked-in shirt. (Although now Migos, getting 鈥淏ad and Boujee,鈥� has all kinds of young players dressing like that by choice. Go figure.) But they never understood or tried to understand us. They projected their morals and thought processes onto young Black men without figuring out who we were. This struck me as a recipe for our continually being misunderstood, misguided, and misjudged, ingredients for disaster and rebellion, or at the very least for stress and self-destruction and the creation of the very PTSD that afflicts players when it鈥檚 all over.”
― Michael Bennett, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

“Don鈥檛 feel guilty. Do something to make it better. Help us heal by standing鈥攐r sitting鈥攁longside us.”
― Michael Bennett, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

“Remember what John Carlos said: 鈥淭here is no partial commitment to justice. You are either in or you鈥檙e out.鈥� Trust me: if you鈥檙e willing to be uncomfortable, you will also feel blessed, if you can see it through and make it to the other side.”
― Michael Bennett, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

“People ask me, "Jarod, why haven't you won an NFL Championship by now?" My answer is the same. I reply, "I may not be Mozart, or I might be, who's to say, but if you put me in an elevator, I'm going to make music that fills the space completely, like duck quacks in a can.”
― Jarod Kintz, Duck Quotes For The Ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

“What are we doing on the plane ride back home? I heard Lamar [Jackson] is leading us in high knees. Ravens flock, let's fly.”
― Justin Tucker

“Never mind the horse's blind, just load the wagon.”
― John Madden

“hate comes at you when you make any stand. It鈥檚 the price of trying to be heard. If that鈥檚 the case, and we accept it, then it鈥檚 a waste of emotion to react to the negativity. The hate, the rage that people throw at you only has power if you let it affect you.”
― Michael Bennett, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

“People always ask me, "Jarod, why haven't you won an NFL Championship by now?" My answer is the same. I reply, "I may not be Mozart, or I might be, who's to say, but if you put me in an elevator, I'm going to make music that fills the space completely, like duck quacks in a can.”
― Jarod Kintz, Duck Quotes For The Ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

“In that moment I saw the part of the man that makes me feel pity: he has no ability to walk in other people鈥檚 shoes, to see the world from another perspective, from Puerto Rico to the NFL.”
― Michael Bennett, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

“It gives the whole game away that college football is so popular in the SEC, where the legacy of Jim Crow and segregation is so powerful, and now they worship Black football players who make no money and are out there providing entertainment. The university people and the networks intentionally create this fake feel鈥攖hey use the football field to miseducate people with a fictional portrayal of life off the field. The fiction is that because all these white student fans are cheering majority-Black teams, the dynamic is somehow postracial. It creates an illusion for both the fan and the player鈥攖he student and the student-athlete鈥攕o they don鈥檛 have to face how messed-up this country is. You鈥檙e not Black on the field. You鈥檙e a representative of your school. There鈥檚 no New Jim Crow when you鈥檙e on the field. There鈥檚 no Donald Trump. There鈥檚 no Trayvon Martin.”
― Michael Bennett, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

“We have a civil rights photo collection in our house, a big, beautiful coffee table book with images so vivid they cause jaws to drop. When my daughters and their friends pick it up to look at the young Black boys and girls in the middle of a dangerous struggle, I remind them that our eyes are trained to look at the Black faces and their determination as they walk to school. But I tell them also to look at the white faces in the background: the young, jeering faces shouting slurs and throwing things. 鈥淎ll of those folks are now around your granddad鈥檚 age,鈥� I tell my daughters. They鈥檙e still with us, and those people now walk around, every day, living with what they did, and either trying to rectify it in their brains, through penance, or voting for Donald Trump and passing that hatred down to their children鈥檚 children. That is this country. Them. We cannot afford to pretend they don鈥檛 live among us.”
― Michael Bennett, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

“America is hypocritical with its democracy. How Robert Kraft gets charged with solicitation with a prostitute and some believe he should get a pass based on who he is? How a Florida madam that was that had Robert Kraft in her spa is so close to Republican politicians and including the "president"? How Jerry Jones commits sexual harassment and is a racist can easily take care of his problems with money? How can Conservative and a few Liberal D.A's and AG's refuse to charge cops for killing unarmed black men but quick to charge a black person for unpaid parking tickets? That answer is America is hypocritical with its democracy.”
― Jerome Montgomery II

“You can't go against the NFL. They will squash, he told the PBS news show Frontline.

Omalu”
― Seema Yasmin, Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them

“Broncos Country, Lets ride.”
― Russell Wilson, World Champion Seattle Seahawks: We Are 12

“I usually eat cereal every morning.”
― Lamar Jackson

“If you don鈥檛 ask why, you鈥檒l never be attacked or criticized. No one is going to go after you or your family. But if you don鈥檛 ask why, nothing, not a damn thing, is ever going to change. I think that鈥檚 the difference between philanthropy and activism. Philanthropy is this kind of life-saving work. Activism is when you ask why this work needs to be done in the first place.”
― Michael Bennett, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

“If I can't forgive birth mother, how can I be out in the world arguing for love, justice, and community? How can I hold her hostage away from my heart for something she did when she was so young? My instincts are to stay angry, but my heart says that anger is the road to ruin.”
― Michael Bennett, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

“Emil Zippo - I'm a food lover, Dave Matthews鈥檚 band and American Football in Bronx, New York.”
― Emil Zippo

“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. Faith, family, friends, and fortitude - with these four pillars, you can and will survive.
-Kevin Reilly”
― Kevin Reilly

“he gave me step-by-step instructions on the right way to do the wrong things”
― Josh Luchs

“Notably Tebow, while honoring his creator, never interrupted any flag ceremony or disrespected anyone at all, and yet in the eyes of many Americans he was blackballed by the NFL---solely because of his moral and religious stance. When this occurred, there was no concern expressed by liberals that somehow Tebow's rights were extinguished, or that it was unfair that he no longer plays football.”
― Horace Cooper, How Trump Is Making Black America Great Again: The Untold Story of Black Advancement in the Era of Trump

“I think the worst thing anyone can do is spend time worrying about something they missed out on," Schottenheimer said about not winning a championship in the NFL. "Disappointment? Sure. But I never let it consume me.

"It's been a great journey.”
― Marty Schottenheimer

“I wonder what it is about me; all my women scream.”
― Ruby Mohan, Blue's Valentine: Part 3 of series

“Watching grown men run around in tights and chasing an oddly shaped ball is not really my thing.”
― Steven Magee

“I just go out there and play”
― Deshaun Watson

“Make sure, if you're willing to say something, that you worked hard enough and prepared well enough to back those things up.”
― Myles Garrett