Roger Milla Quotes

I was a firm believer that every cricketer needs to get a fair chance.

Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.

I think we have enough trouble finding community in this country, and sport does provide that. It is a mediocrisy, the greatest mediocrisy. If you're the best, it shows in sports. Nobody can say, 'Well, he's only there because of his connections,' or whatever. In that sense, I suppose it upholds democracy and the best in us.

I'm all for competition; competition is good. I just want to make sure the playing field is level.

No one man is superior to the game.

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.

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

You just want to be judged against everyone fairly.

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

A fair field and no favor!

We seek ... not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and as a result.

There is no king of golf. Never has been, never will be. Golf is the most democratic game on Earth... It punishes and exalts us all with splendid equal opportunity.

Everybody has his place; everybody is equal. Treated equally, equal standing, equal rights and status.

Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we're from or what we look like or who we love.

I am just a player like everyone else.

Male, female, it doesn't matter. All I see when I look across the ring is an opponent.

If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.

Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

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?

If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

Ability is sexless.