John Amaechi Quotes

You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.

Knowing yourself, knowing where you want to get, combining those things gives you the pragmatic steps.

You can't be a part-time man of principle.

In a country like America, there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means division, where it means potentially abuse.

I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.

I always think coming out is something that you do for people who really deserve it. It should be.

In my experience, it's only people who don't play sport at a professional level who think that there is anything remotely erotic about a locker room.

We need to accept that some people are camp and some people are butch. Some people are pretty and some people are average, but we all fit.

I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was... social life was such a distant part of my existence when I was in school that I didn't even think about it too much.

I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models.

I'm a nerd. I like to sit in the library. I don't like to sweat.

I've been captivated by the idea of being on a basketball court and being surrounded by people who made me look a little bit less like a freak.

I thought kissing was good with girls, but I always thought you know it probably could be better, so there was nothing really.

I'd probably have to leave home in order to become a basketball player of any note.

There are some people the gestation period is like an elephant's and it's just years and years before they're ready.

I don't need to think that I'm being loomed over my shoulder in order to behave in a way that's moral.