Luis Suarez Quotes

Nobody in England knows the real Luis Suarez.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.

Sarri is a racist, and men like him should be drummed out of football.

There's nothing in this country that is a worse accusation - in America, if you accuse somebody of racism, that person has to disprove that.

They want to portray me as crazy, unhinged, unbalanced. OK, good, fine.

The only way I’d ever recruit a white quarterback to play for me is if his mom and daddy would both have to be black, and that’s the only way I would do it.

I probably owe an apology to fans that have been supportive and have not wanted to believe any of this was true. It takes a little bit of the sheen off of the mystique.

I never looked at the bigger picture. I was just so passionate about football; I just wanted an opportunity to play with no barriers and no stigma.

People who know me know I'm not a racist.

I could have been bigger, but I wasn't controversial enough. I didn't do drugs or wreck rooms. There were no dramas in my private life.

There was tremendous animus to President [Barack] Obama. Many of people said he was un-American, not a Christian and worse.

But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

Sammy Lee is another inbred player

Some people have called me arrogant or believe that is my reputation, which is far from what I really am like.

No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, women - but somehow it's okay to do that with hillbillies.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

I apologize for the fact that the word ‘anti-Mexican’ is being said to a black guy in America.

Accusing somebody of racism is a very effective weapon in Germany. Islamists know this: As soon as you accuse someone of demonizing Islam, then the European side backs down.

There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in the book, namely racism, discrimination, ethnic inequality etc.

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.

I was in Toronto when they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I went "cough, cough, cough... You wanna egg rorr?

I don't understand racism. I have many black friends and many others have been my opponents. Respect is basic. Unfortunately racism is a social problem, and football belongs to society.

These days I find myself wanting to avoid being pigeon-holed, ghettoized, held in a different category than other authors. And when people ask me if I'm a black writer, or just a writer who happens to be black, I tend to say that it's either a dumb question or a question which happens to be dumb.