Top 105 Quotes & Sayings by Jason Whitlock
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Jason Whitlock.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Trust is what leads to the best conversations. People take chances and say what they really think when they trust the person they're engaging with.
Racism is an issue in America but is primarily an issue for the poor. It's not LeBron James' issue.
The sacrifices you make in your 20s pay off 30 and 40 years later. The same is true when it comes to financial progress. Every dime saved in your 20s turns into a dollar in your 60s.
Far-left political ideologues want to reshape sports culture to their liking.
Investing in your long-term health means cultivating the skills to prepare your own meals, developing healthy eating habits and a willingness to make time to exercise. The earlier you embrace these habits, the healthier you will be in your 50s, 60s and beyond.
A right to privacy is at the very foundation of American freedoms. It's a core value. It's a mistake to undermine a core value because we don't like the way a billionaire exercises it.
I'm talking about their supporters, and Donald Trump's support is coming from people who love Donald Trump, who unconditionally love Donald Trump to the point that they will risk their health and go to rallies with thousands of people.
Sports culture has long been patriotic, tolerant of diverse backgrounds and perspective and celebratory of meritocracy.
What has truly impeded ESPN from overcoming its financial mistakes and inability to adapt to technological advances? The decadelong culture war ESPN lost to Deadspin, a snarky, politically progressive sports blog launched by Gawker's Nick Denton in 2005.
You can be authentic without being distasteful or disrespectful.
Professional sports have built themselves on the celebration of Americana, the ideas and values that best exemplify America.
I'm a sports columnist who specializes in social commentary.
I'm a bit of a rabble-rouser.
Seriously, I was the wrong fit at ESPN. Definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
ESPN is the exact network Deadspin desired. It's diverse on its surface, progressive in its point of view, and more concerned with spinning media narratives than with the quality of its product.
Modern political liberalism, particularly its racial orthodoxy, is the science of excuse-making, the training of black minds for failure.
Whatever my critics say, I've been a hard-core journalist all my career.
Sports culture is not PC or far left. There are no safe spaces in the field of competition.
I don't have a beef with Texas. I just don't think Texans know anything about basketball and they don't have a sense of humor. Texans take themselves too seriously.
But at the end of the day, in order for me to reach my full potential, I need an environment that allows me to be me... The executives at Fox Sports get and embrace me. Fox Sports allows me to be real.
Our conversations on 'The Herd' are irreverent, insightful and original. That's a great combination.
I don't do stand-up anymore. There are no rules in stand-up comedy. Journalists follow plenty of rules.
Sports culture has long had a major impact on American culture. The values taught and celebrated in sports are conservative.
Personally, I'm not all that interested in making the show appealing to casual sports fans.
You can't be Allen Iverson on a football team. And even Iverson got run out of Philadelphia when he was still a spectacular talent because the Sixers got tired of the headache and his bad attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Southern, conservative minister who believed in the American promise. His dream was patriotic and traditional. Family, work, self-determination and religion comprised his core values.
Judge my columns, enjoy my tweets. That's my philosophy.
Segregation has never been a shadowy, impossible-to-pin-down conspiracy. It's been an American way of life.
Mob rule is dangerous. Well-intentioned, TV-baited mobs are the most dangerous. They do not consider the consequences of their actions, and they're prone to take a simple-minded, instant-gratification approach to justice rather than a strategic one.
It is possible to set your standards too high, which can undermine a man's confidence and ability to perform. Instead of reaching for the stars and settling for the moon, there is considerable evidence that man is better served reaching for a blade of grass and settling for an under-the-table handshake deal.
Certain people and groups seem invested in convincing black people that black people are liberal. We've traditionally been conservative, church-going people.
New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and billionaires reshaping the American media in a way that reflects San Francisco values.
I didn't brown-nose my way here. I pulled out guns and shot my way here. So people don't mind shooting back. If I'd gotten here brown-nosing and playing all the political games, I'd probably be treated differently.
I don't own a gun. I'm a pacifist. I am a critic of commercial gangsta rap music. I don't believe you change people or their flawed perspectives from a distance. You open their minds from up close, when they realize you respect and love them.
There's no way you can do any homework on Black Lives Matters, and not see that it's a Marxist political organization. It's not about Black Death. It's not about black men. It is a political move. It's a communist political move.
If you engage with the police, filled with fear, you're more likely to make really bad decisions that than provoke them to take action.
I came up with the name 'The Undefeated' the day Maya Angelou died. It took eight months to get the name approved.
Steve Fisher did not like me at all. I was hyper-critical of him. I didn't think he was much of a coach. He just kind of rolled the ball out there and I was pretty outspoken about that. Steve Fisher and I didn't get along at all.
But I'm not a political partisan. I don't vote.
Great wealth creates an arrogance and, to be quite frank, a god complex in some people that they start feeling like they can do no wrong, they own people, they're superior to other people.
I wanted to leave ESPN when control of 'The Undefeated' was taken from me.
Self-analysis is the sworn enemy of regret-free living.
The Democratic Party, the mainstream media are using fear to control people and to control African Americans in particular. You cannot function properly if you live in an irrational fear.
I think that fear is a mechanism a tool for control.
God is the embodiment of love and we are a society that seems to be embracing and favoring hate and empowering hate.
We won. The media. We destroyed Barry Bonds, drove him crazy, turned the most disciplined and feared hitter the game has ever known into a fence-swinging hack, drained all the excitement out of his 714 home runs.
My dad didn't graduate high school. My mom is a high school graduate. My mom is a factory worker. My dad owned a bar in the inner city.
Have I been an entertainer, a provocateur and a humorist? Absolutely.
Take your money, pool your resources and support people who actually represent your views and have the time to be full-time involved.
Jim Crow had unintended benefits. It forced blacks to build and rely on their own economic, educational and social systems.
I will talk to anybody... You want to talk, let's talk.
The hall of fame is something you do when you look back at the end of your career, not in the middle of it.
Journalists used to be obsessed with working at a New York magazine or newspaper or TV network. Now the entire industry is obsessed with going viral and how words will be received via social media.
There is a business built around racial grievance. And that business is booming at such a level that white people are like hey, I'm going to adopt a whole new identity so I can benefit from being Baby Al Sharpton, Baby Jesse Jackson, and in academia, this has been embraced and she has been able to pull off this scam.
I'm a conservative dude from the Midwest. I went crazy out here in LA.
In the immediate aftermath of the civil-rights movement, Democrats marketed liberalism to us as fashionable, sophisticated and liberating. Today it needs a surgeon general's warning: hazardous to your family and the values you were taught as a child.
The liberal-run institution of journalism does not allow probing of real problems facing black people. That is prohibited. It might lead to actual solutions. It might provoke black people to wake up every day looking for solutions rather than excuses and meaningless verbal offenses.
We have grown comfortable not having our perspective challenged. It's unhealthy.
With the pervasive popularity of rap music and a black man sitting in the White House, there's no reason to pretend the NBA has been handicapped by the blackness of basketball.
You want to be leaders and you're black and I'm here to tell you how to do it. Disconnect from this social media garbage; disconnect from these celebrity athletes who don't really care nothing about you.
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