Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Jemele Hill - Page 2

When NASCAR drivers blast one another with their cars out of anger it isn't symptomatic of what's wrong with white people. So please don't turn a silly NBA fight into a town hall meeting about what's wrong with African Americans - even though, unfortunately, something like this somehow winds up reflecting poorly on the entire black community.

Athletes are no different than many of us.

It's very easy on social media to manipulate people's emotions, to manipulate their belief systems.

We Americans can be haughty. We can be delusional.

I think athletes are, in general, tired of so much of their persona being controlled by the media.

There's a long history and a pattern of Black athletes - and Black people, period - being told to shut up and accept whatever it is they're given.

A lot of women will tell you, especially if they're ambitious, driven, successful, that it is hard to find men who are secure. There's a lot of insecure dudes out here.

When you're in the public eye, it allows people to see you inhumanely. There's this idea that you have to take the abuse. And when younger journalists, especially young female journalists, ask me how I handle social media, I hate myself when I have to tell them to condition themselves and develop a thick skin.

I hate running.

I'm usually fine with NFL players holding out. Considering the risk of injury and no guaranteed contracts, you can't blame them for getting what they can when they have the most leverage.

The overwhelming majority of NFL owners are white, and when they do choose to get involved in politics, they usually champion conservative causes.

Someone taught us how to craft a resume, what to wear to a job interview and not to put our elbows on the table. Athletes also must be trained as professionals. Their livelihoods depend on it.

Personally, I love athletes on Twitter. I think it gives them an opportunity to engage and show some of their personality.

Whenever black folks speak candidly about the horrors of police brutality, the default reaction in the United States isn't to start disrupting and dismantling the system of prejudices that enables the abuse of black people, but to demand silence and, sometimes, outright obedience.

I had very simple goals. They weren't about destination or place. It was about being good.

Far too many athletes have been unable to let go of their troubled roots or just have failed to fully understand their new lives and what's expected of them.

I think number one, in addition to being hot, the one thing that has always been important to me in a mate is somebody who is comfortable in their own skin and who is very secure.

Racism has never been outright gone in the history of this nation, but I think we've had moments where everybody has been really fed up with its presence.

I've learned a lot about guys through Twitter and I'm for any channel that allows athletes to express themselves openly.

Our country has had a painful, racial history, and there are many issues that bear discussing.

Detroit is known as 'Hockeytown,' but the Lions are truly the soul of the city.

Newsflash: competitive athletes fight sometimes. They also are egomaniacs.

For some reason, when Colin Kaepernick took a knee, people remained undecided about the side of history that he was on - which was clearly short-sighted on their part, because he was always right. Because there was no public momentum or approval behind what he did, people found it easier to say things like 'stick to sports.'

I don't dig ditches for a living and consider it pretty special that I'm able to watch games for a living, cover athletes and get access the average person can't.

The things that make for a good journalist - or for that matter, make for good journalism - they've never changed since the craft was invented.

Can I just say that PBR is one of the most underrated beers of all time? And good God it's cheap.

SportsCenter' is the legacy brand at ESPN, I had a great year doing the show. But it was not a fit for me because ultimately I had a lot of things that I really wanted to say and wanted to express, and the 'SportsCenter' vehicle is not necessarily set up for that.

There is no way American sports are any cleaner than cycling.

If the lead line in my obituary is 'She once tweeted that the president is a white supremacist,' I will see my life as a professional disappointment.

Yes, I do realize that men in sports media also face criticism and backlash, but the vitriol that is directed at women, especially women of color, is far more severe.

Sports has always been a great entry point for us to discuss issues that are pretty widely known in society.

I've been through difficult swings in my career.

Even for a billionaire, a divorce isn't easy.

Anyone who generates opinion for a living is going to get plenty of feedback, positive or negative. Some people indeed don't like the fact that I'm a woman with strong opinions. And if they disagree with me, they are quick to point out what my gender is. I chalk it up to being the nature of people.

Americans love to be entertained, often at the expense of our judgment, morals and values.

I've found in conversations with people - and not just white people either, because I realize there are some Black people that voted for Trump - usually when I get in these conversations with people who voted for Trump, there was always some level of his bigotry that appealed to them. Banning Muslims, building a wall, it was always something.

Race impacts 90 percent of our society - and I'm probably undershooting that figure. I find this fascinating and like to address it when pertinent.

Maybe a lot of people probably didn't know this, but I spent the majority of my career in print journalism.

It's something most people of color and most women have been burdened with their whole lives, having to suppress your natural emotion to make everybody else feel comfortable. Repeatedly having to do that takes its toll.

If you're paying taxes in this country, you have a right to voice your criticisms of your own government. That's pretty much the foundation of American freedom.

There was no excuse for Dallas Cowboys to lose to Washington. Rivalry or not, Redskins are a bad team.

When it comes to sports, women are big targets for abuse because the resentment is two-fold. Some resent us for our confidence and beliefs. But there also is an added resentment because we are supposedly infiltrating a space that has been decidedly male.

Kevin Garnett did the classic hold me back but fall away at the same time.