Steven

“The vast majority - 98.4 percent - of college football players in the U.S. with aspirations to play professional football never get that opportunity.”
― James R. Wallen, Gridiron Underground: Black American Journeys in Canadian Football

“as a player you win once but when you win as a coach, you win...forty times.”
― James R. Wallen, Gridiron Underground: Black American Journeys in Canadian Football

“He [Steve Ross] said he used to have the same prejudices against the game as most Americans: It was too slow, too "foreign," too difficult to understand what was really going on. But once he started watching the game, and had some friends explain it to him, he realized how fascinating soccer could be. He believed that it just needed the right conditions to thrive. In other words, he saw soccer like an entrepreneur, which of course was exactly what he was, and an excellent one at that. He spotted an unmet need, an undervalued asset, and made it his personal mission to make it succeed, come hell or high water. After the Cosmos struggled through its first few seasons, switching stadiums every so often and failing to generate much buzz, Steve purchased the team from its original investors for the grand price of one dollar. And then, for no good reason other than his own passion and drive, Steve decided to throw the entire commercial and marketing weight of Warner Communications behind the team. He would not only make the Cosmos a winner, but bring a "new" spectator sport to the American public.”
― Pelé, Why Soccer Matters: A Look at More Than Sixty Years of International Soccer

“By making our people in the Western Hemisphere hate Africa, we ended up hating ourselves. We hated our African characteristics. We hated our African identity. We hated our African features. So much so that you would find those of us in the West who would hate the shape of our nose. We would hate the shape of our lips. We would hate the color of our skin and the texture of our hair. This was a reaction, but we didn’t realize that it was a reaction.”
― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Talks to Young People: Speeches in the United States, Britain, and Africa