Cheech Marin Quotes

The thing I like most about football is it's a meritocracy.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

All are welcome in sport.

I could speak for hours about equality and what needs to change in football and in society as a whole. But in the end, everything comes back to respect.

And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football?

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.

Sports is the common denominator in the world that brings everyone together. If there's any one place in the world where there is equality, it is probably sports. That was something that didn't always exist. We've come a long way in sports. Why can't society use sports as a way to bring people together and create change?

The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.

Since I started in motor racing I've worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that.

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.

The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

… the color of the skin is a condition entirely to be disregarded … I have little patience with … any other tests than those of regularity, character, manhood, and intelligence.

I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.

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.

I would like my kids to inherit a world where people succeed because of merit and hard work, not entitlement, and where people accept others for what they are and not try to change them.

The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever land they come, speak the same language. The lessons of competition are lessons for life.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.

Basketball is like society - you're going to have good and bad.