A history of insensitive sports quotes
• April 1987, on ABC's "Nightline", then-Dodgers GM Al Campanis said blacks "may not have some of the necessities to be, let's say, a field manager, or perhaps a general manager." In the same interview, Campanis suggested blacks were not good swimmers because they "don't have the buoyancy."
• May 1987, Isiah Thomas on then-Boston Celtics star and three-time MVP Larry Bird: "If Bird was black, he'd be just another good guy."
• January 1988, CBS NFL analyst Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder said the black athlete is "bred to be the better athlete because, this goes all the way to the Civil War when . . . the slave owner would breed his big woman so that he would have a big black kid."
• April 1988, then-Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight: "I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it."
• In 1992, then-Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott called former Reds outfielders Eric Davis and Dave Parker "million-dollar niggers." She also kept a swastika arm band at home, she said, and noted that "Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far."
• September 1993, ABC "Monday Night Football" broadcaster Howard Cosell said: "Look at that little monkey go," when he referred to a play by black receiver Alvin Garrett of the Washington Redskins regarding a run after a reception.
• May 1995, Ben Wright said of the LPGA: "Let's face facts here. Lesbians in the sport hurts women's golf. When it gets to the corporate level, that's not going to fly. They're going to a butch game, and that furthers the bad image of the game."
• April 1997, after Tiger Woods won the Masters at age 21 to become its youngest champion, Fuzzy Zoeller (pictured) said: "That little boy is driving well and he's putting well. He's doing everything it takes to win. So, you know what you guys do when he gets in here? You pat him on the back and say congratulations and enjoy it and tell him not serve fried chicken next year. Got it? . . . or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve."
• January 1999, Martina Hingis on fellow tennis player Amelie Mauresmo, who is openly gay: "She travels with her girlfriend, she is half a man."
• December 1999, Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker on what it would be like to play full-time in New York for the Mets: "Imagine having to take the (No.) 7 train to (Shea Stadium) looking like you're (in) Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing. The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?"
• May 2003, Mike Tyson said of the woman he was convicted of raping years earlier, Desiree Washington: "I just hate her guts. She put me in that state, where I don't know. I really wish I did now. But now I really do want to rape her."
• September 2003, Rush Limbaugh on ESPN's NFL Countdown on Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb: "I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn't deserve. The defense carried this team."
• July 2003, Cubs manager Dusty Baker, on why black and Latino players are more suited to play in the heat: "Personally, I like to play in the heat. You know, it's easy for me. I mean it's easy for most Latin guys and easy minority people as most of us come from heat. You know you don't find too many brothers from New Hampshire and Maine and upper peninsula in Michigan, right? I mean, you know, we're brought over here for the heat. Right? I mean ain't that – isn't that history? Weren't we brought over here because we could take the heat?"
• October 2003, golfer Jan Stephenson said of the growing number of Asian players on the LPGA: "This is probably going to get me in trouble, but the Asians are killing our tour. Absolutely killing it. Their lack of emotion, their refusal to speak English when they can speak English. They rarely speak. We have two-day pro-ams where people are paying a lot of money to play with us, and they say hello and goodbye. Our tour is predominantly international and the majority of them are Asian. They've taken it over. If I were commissioner, I would have a quota on international players and that would include a quota on Asian players. As it is, they're taking American money. American sponsors are picking up the bill. There should be a qualifying school for Americans and a qualifying school for international players. I'm Australian, an international player, but I say America has to come first. Sixty percent of the tour should be American, 40 percent international."
• June 2006, Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, upset over a column written by the Chicago Sun-Times' Jay Mariotti, said of Mariotti: "What a piece of (expletive) he is, (expletive) fag."
• April 2007, radio host Don Imus said of the Rutgers women's basketball team: "That's some rough girls from Rutgers. Man, they got tattoos. . . . That's some nappy-headed hos there."
– Compiled by Matt Severance
Posted: 1/10/2008
• April 1987, on ABC's "Nightline", then-Dodgers GM Al Campanis said blacks "may not have some of the necessities to be, let's say, a field manager, or perhaps a general manager." In the same interview, Campanis suggested blacks were not good swimmers because they "don't have the buoyancy."
• May 1987, Isiah Thomas on then-Boston Celtics star and three-time MVP Larry Bird: "If Bird was black, he'd be just another good guy."
• January 1988, CBS NFL analyst Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder said the black athlete is "bred to be the better athlete because, this goes all the way to the Civil War when . . . the slave owner would breed his big woman so that he would have a big black kid."
• April 1988, then-Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight: "I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it."
• In 1992, then-Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott called former Reds outfielders Eric Davis and Dave Parker "million-dollar niggers." She also kept a swastika arm band at home, she said, and noted that "Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far."
• September 1993, ABC "Monday Night Football" broadcaster Howard Cosell said: "Look at that little monkey go," when he referred to a play by black receiver Alvin Garrett of the Washington Redskins regarding a run after a reception.
• May 1995, Ben Wright said of the LPGA: "Let's face facts here. Lesbians in the sport hurts women's golf. When it gets to the corporate level, that's not going to fly. They're going to a butch game, and that furthers the bad image of the game."
• April 1997, after Tiger Woods won the Masters at age 21 to become its youngest champion, Fuzzy Zoeller (pictured) said: "That little boy is driving well and he's putting well. He's doing everything it takes to win. So, you know what you guys do when he gets in here? You pat him on the back and say congratulations and enjoy it and tell him not serve fried chicken next year. Got it? . . . or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve."
• January 1999, Martina Hingis on fellow tennis player Amelie Mauresmo, who is openly gay: "She travels with her girlfriend, she is half a man."
• December 1999, Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker on what it would be like to play full-time in New York for the Mets: "Imagine having to take the (No.) 7 train to (Shea Stadium) looking like you're (in) Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing. The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?"
• May 2003, Mike Tyson said of the woman he was convicted of raping years earlier, Desiree Washington: "I just hate her guts. She put me in that state, where I don't know. I really wish I did now. But now I really do want to rape her."
• September 2003, Rush Limbaugh on ESPN's NFL Countdown on Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb: "I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn't deserve. The defense carried this team."
• July 2003, Cubs manager Dusty Baker, on why black and Latino players are more suited to play in the heat: "Personally, I like to play in the heat. You know, it's easy for me. I mean it's easy for most Latin guys and easy minority people as most of us come from heat. You know you don't find too many brothers from New Hampshire and Maine and upper peninsula in Michigan, right? I mean, you know, we're brought over here for the heat. Right? I mean ain't that – isn't that history? Weren't we brought over here because we could take the heat?"
• October 2003, golfer Jan Stephenson said of the growing number of Asian players on the LPGA: "This is probably going to get me in trouble, but the Asians are killing our tour. Absolutely killing it. Their lack of emotion, their refusal to speak English when they can speak English. They rarely speak. We have two-day pro-ams where people are paying a lot of money to play with us, and they say hello and goodbye. Our tour is predominantly international and the majority of them are Asian. They've taken it over. If I were commissioner, I would have a quota on international players and that would include a quota on Asian players. As it is, they're taking American money. American sponsors are picking up the bill. There should be a qualifying school for Americans and a qualifying school for international players. I'm Australian, an international player, but I say America has to come first. Sixty percent of the tour should be American, 40 percent international."
• June 2006, Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, upset over a column written by the Chicago Sun-Times' Jay Mariotti, said of Mariotti: "What a piece of (expletive) he is, (expletive) fag."
• April 2007, radio host Don Imus said of the Rutgers women's basketball team: "That's some rough girls from Rutgers. Man, they got tattoos. . . . That's some nappy-headed hos there."
– Compiled by Matt Severance
Posted: 1/10/2008
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