15 Quotes by Tommie Smith

She has very sound, traditional conservative values, which is very important to me and my family.

I would not miss an opportunity like this to work with kids for nothing in the world. I flew in from Atlanta for this.

Sadly, football in England has declined since we won the World Cup in 1966. Suddenly we had coaches appearing out of drainpipes and we've got players now who are nowhere near as good as players were in the 1960s and '70s. They're possibly fitter, but that's all.

It wasn't done for a malignant reason. It was only done to bring attention to the atrocities of which we were experiencing in a country that was supposed to represent us.

In my day, we played on heavy pitches with a ball that weighed a ton, nowadays they play on bowling greens with a balloon.

I knew nothing about the people who ran the game in those days.

I had to get myself in the world's eye to make my statement.

I had no regrets, I have no regrets, I will never have any regrets. We were there to stand up for human rights and to stand up for black Americans. We wanted to make them better in the United States.

In those days reputation was a big thing. If you could win a game before you went out, win it. That could mean winning it in the papers by saying certain things or by not saying certain things. You got very crafty at the game.