David Pleat Quotes

I never heard anything about 'potatoes' or 'kanaken' during my time in the national team. However I have been called 'potato,' too.

When I'm warming up on the sidelines, I can often hear monkey chants. Me, who played so many matches for Germany.

I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just in like 1993 that someone called me that.

It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult?

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Do you know how big of an insult that is to me - to say that I had to be brave to confront some ignorant white folks?

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

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 was warming up with a couple of team-mates. We were all coloured and there were monkey chants. There were about 10 of them doing it. I didn't know what to do. It had never happened to me before. I told my coach and he went mad.

People think racist abuse stops on the football pitch, but that's just the beginning. When you go home, you are still confronted with it. Football is just a magnifying glass of the real world.

You can get racially abused 10 times before you even reach the football stadium. If you've been confronted every day with something like that, it's hard. This is not about people playing the 'race card.' This is a reality that people like to sweep under the carpet.

He (Don Drysdale) talks very well for a guy who's had two fingers in his mouth all his life.

We have all had, on all sides of the House - some truly appalling things said about us. I've been called a race traitor, a coconut, a sell out. It's horrible and it's never the kind of thing that should be normalised or accepted.

I have a huge issue with blackface.

I have had strangers come up to me and attempt to mimic the Chinese language in a derogatory manner. I have been told countless times that I speak 'good' English. I have been asked why someone like me would be interested in watching NFL football. On any given day, if I walk around with a camera, I will be mistaken for a tourist from Asia.

Sometimes, the fact that you're a footballer makes you think that racism can't happen to you because you bring that passion and you express a lot of things. When it happened to me, I couldn't believe it, and in that moment, I decided to walk off the pitch.

The people I make fun of most are white people. They're the dumbest ones. They really are.

For me racism doesn't belong to football and it doesn't belong in our society any more.

I get racist stuff all the time.

I remember going to stadiums and huge sections of the stand gave you racial abuse. It was never nice but it wasn't a surprise - particularly when I was first at Spurs.

There is a difference between being offended and being prejudiced and even being bigoted against. There's a difference between that and racism.

I had this one teacher, and as I got older and translated things he used to say, it was racist and hatred stuff he was saying toward me and my brother.

People come up to me, they want to fight me. I've faced a lot of people come up to me and saying racist things, hateful things, aggressive things.

There's still a lot of racism in stand-up.

No one actually cares about blackface.