Greg Boyle Quotes

It's our responsibility for the village to say, 'Hey we're going to create these programs,' whether it's sports, creative arts, music, we need some things to give young people positive things to do, and that's including jobs.

It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

Kids need somewhere to go, so they're not bored on the street.

We will not rest until being a gang member is a miserable, undesirable life.

As much as I dislike the suggestion of single solutions to complex problems, jobs are as close as we will get to a single, effective answer to the enormous problem of gangs.

In my barrio, jobs work and money saves lives. When I have had the funds to place a gang member on a job site and pay his salary, I've seen him stop banging. When, on the rarest of occasions, an employer has offered a job to one of these youth, I've witnessed kids suddenly have a reason to get up in the morning.

Where ex-offenders are genuinely trying to turn a corner and live free from crime, it is vital we do all we can to support them.

It's tough for kids to stay focused if they don't have something to get them off the streets... that's where the kids can get into the bad things.

I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver.

We have to bring back law and order in this country and I think the police are phenomenal people.

Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most sensible, affordable approach to the problem. Policemen are assigned their police patrol cars for personal use after hours. They are encouraged to use the police car while taking the family shopping, to the movies, and everywhere one takes one's family. As a result, says the Police Chief's assistant, we may have as many as 400 cars on the street instead of 100 or so per shift. [And] the presence of the police car obviously indicates the proximity of policemen.

I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching.

I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.

It's always nice to share your energy with young people, the people who might not have any skills but are simply willing to be a part of it.

When I was younger, Jackie Joyner-Kersee was a mentor to me and gave me great advice. The best was to 'work 100 percent, but enjoy every moment along the way.' Sometimes you get so in the zone, you forget to enjoy your passions. I love running—but I also love the movies, relaxing on the beach, shopping and spending time with my friends. Enjoying my life helps me enjoy my running.

I will work with local police and appoint the best prosecutors and federal investigators, whose mission will be to ensure every American is safe.

Give (your people) the youth a proper environment. Motivate them. Extend them the support they need. Each one of them has infinite source of energy. They will deliver.

Working with all of these kids is great. It doesn't get any better than this, to come down and inspire kids who want to play the game of basketball and put smiles on their faces.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

The first step is to take weapons off the streets and to put more police on them.

Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.

I think the president-elect [Donald trump] also supports anything we can do to put an end to these sorts of incidents from taking place in our country.

I really believe that you can. Not only do I think it is a part of public service to help young people find their way, just as professors had helped me find mine, but I've been very involved in K-12 education issues. I started a program back in 1992 called the Center for a New Generation, an afterschool enrichment program.

I'd like to try to inspire the youth, that's obviously where our future is and the kids are the ones you can mould and you can give them ideas and opportunities and I'd like to try to inspire all the young kids because I had a dream when I was young, that was to play for Australia.

I'm trying to get other niggas off the streets.