Bill Goldberg Quotes

I will not accept racism at all. It's unacceptable. If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to jail, because I will kill them.

If they [political opponents] go around lying about your record, insulting your job performance, your wife and your patriotism, you ought to double up your fist and knock the crap out of them.

Get those goddamned niggers! And get those goddamned white niggers.

I was 11 years old and was racially abused on the pitch. It was obviously disappointing to hear it at such a young age.

A child comes to see his father play, have fun, make people happy, and what does he see? He sees people booing his father for being black. They make monkey noises. They throw bananas at his teammates and all that.

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.

When I played and got abused by another player, called a 'black so and so,' I always said 'that's out of order' but I tried to ignore it. I'd be thinking: 'You're not going to bring me down to that level.' But there were occasions when something was said and the next tackle went in a lot firmer.

At school, I was frequently subjected to racial abuse.

Sometimes people ask me this question in interviews and it is very difficult to answer. They say, 'Kouli, how does it feel when the fans make these racist howls at you? Does it bother you? What should be done?' I think that until you have lived it, you cannot really understand. It is such an ugly thing, and it is hard to talk about.

Shut your damn mouth.

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.

Assault in any form is never OK, and I want to be very clear on that.

How many people can say that they've punched a fan?

There should be consequences that happen when you say things about people, especially racist things.

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.

I have been racially abused by fans and players, but sometimes it's just a way to get under your skin.

I know if someone talked trash to me, I'd want to kick his butt.

I'm a very aggressive person. I have slapped people when they have tried to grab me or my friends. I have reported people to the cops.

I've grown up with racism my entire life. I've been bullied, sent to the hospital, beat up, I've been called a Chink and a Gook. Every single racial slur an Asian person can be called, I've been called it.

All the racial slurs I done heard. All the things I heard about my mom, and my basketball game and my kids, all this. It felt good to punch a fan one time.

If someone was ever racist towards me, I would go wild.

There's nothing worse than a bunch of toothless, ignorant people yelling at you. It's horrible.

Like I already revealed, I once hit a director with a slipper.

Fans seemingly project their frustration and anger on the players and coaches. This results in insults and even in people spitting at us.

I will be completely honest: when I fought in Manchester, they were very cruel to me. One fan actually spat directly in my face, and he was lucky enough where it hit my mouth.