Sports Integration Quotes

There's only one way to break the color line. Be good. I mean, play good. Play so good that they can't remember what color you were before the season started.

I was from a town called Manhasset, very nice town out on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, but there was a little area, predominantly black population, and it was a small school. I played on the basketball team when I was a junior, and I was the only white guy on the starting five, the top seven actually, and we were really good.

Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.

Every player settles into a new league in different ways.

When English football started to integrate more with European football, England started to share the Latin culture more.

My ultimate dream would be for Derry City to become champions of an all-Ireland league in a united Ireland.

Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.

The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made.

I love women's college basketball, but I don't want it in the NBA.