Just passing laws saying you are not allowed to be racist won't work. You need an educational system in place.
— John Barnes
If you want to consider yourself one of the best teams, you need to be as close to the top as possible.
There wasn't a game in the Eighties when you didn't get racial abuse as a black player.
Why should racism go away when we are not tackling it in the right way? We are influenced by what we see in the world and what we see in the world is certain people being considered more worthy than others - and we continue to see that.
I'm a big believer in fate.
What I say about myself, black footballers or black pop stars is that we have been 'elevated out of blackness.' Because when people see us, they don't see us as being black. These are the issues that we should address.
Until we get rid of racial bias, sexism, homophobia in society, it will exist in all walks of society.
You have to give 100 per cent in every game and you cannot give more than 100 per cent.
Once you have players you like and a good enough squad there's no need to spend money.
I don't see why black should be a negative and it's not negative. The people perpetrating that particular thought are wrong.
I don't differentiate between racism in football to racism in life so, therefore, as a football manager I knew that I would get racist abuse.
There are lots of different ways of playing football. It depends on how tall you are, what position you're in.
I think the only thing you should be judged on is your performance in whatever field you happen to be in.
If Arsene Wenger came down to League Two he would have to adapt, he couldn't work in the same way he works at Arsenal.
I'm desperate to work in football. I could make a lot more money doing other things but this is what I want to do.
History shows that black people have been second-class citizens, less than human. That's what had to happen with slavery. You had to dehumanise a person, to say, 'He is not like us. He is used to hard work in the sun. He can handle being whipped because he doesn't feel any pain. He doesn't need to be educated.'
Generally speaking, ego isn't a good thing. Humility is the most important quality in a human being.
Normally when you look at the Ballon d'Or winners, they're either attacking midfield players or centre-forwards. They are goalscorers and eye-catching players.
Race, for me, should be social and cultural, rather than the colour of your skin. Anton Ferdinand would have more in common with John Terry than he does with some West African from Nigeria. John Terry will have more in common with Anton Ferdinand than a Slav from Eastern Europe who happens to be white.
White players always said to me: 'You can call me 'a white so and so,' I don't mind.' But that's because society has indoctrinated us over the past 400 years to think that that's like saying 'you handsome so and so.'
Just by saying it is wrong to be racist and saying we are going to arrest people and kick them out of stadiums does not stop them being racist.
If you are forced to give someone an opportunity when you don't want to, that's going to turn you even more against it.
In the 1970s people were afraid to call me black because they thought it was an insult. They would say 'coloured.' Now it has gone full circle. It's not an issue. The intention is the most important thing.
For a team like Brighton, just being in the Premier League is important. That is the name of the game.
Societies go backwards sometimes.
Top managers, like Pochettino, Klopp and Guardiola don't make excuses.
We have to look at it holistically and as a whole and say let us tackle racism or discrimination in life. Then you can look to get rid of it in football.
When you talk about kicking racism out of football, people automatically assume you are talking about on the terraces and on the football field. But all racists have to do is keep their mouth shut for 90 minutes and they're fine.
For most footballers, they just have to give their all for 90 minutes two times a week, and apart from a few training sessions spend the rest of the time resting. They only train intensively for six weeks before the new season.
Because I have experienced a prosperous, healthy and happy existence, I must have been a decent person in a past life.
New managers have to come from somewhere, everyone has to be a learner at some point.
The racism I am really interested in stamping out is in everyday life. Joe Bloggs, who nobody knows, walks down the street and gets racially abused. He goes into a shop and people think he is going to steal something. He cannot get a job.
I grew up in a middle-class family in Jamaica, I had no self-worth issues whatsoever.
I used to think you had to be very selfish, but as I get older my views on life change.
I moved into midfield because I ruptured my Achilles tendon and couldn't run anymore - it's not what I wanted to do, it's what I had to do!
I got racist abuse at Liverpool when I played for Watford. Then I played for Liverpool and didn't get it. If I had played for Everton against Liverpool then maybe the Liverpool fans would have racially abused me.
We have to deconstruct the idea of racial superiority. We have had it for hundreds of years so it is not going to happen overnight but we have to tackle it in the right way.
I don't have to manage a big club. That won't fulfil me. I will get more satisfaction from the work that I put in than where I am.
In the 1970s you would have had lots of black goalkeepers and defensive midfield players but never made it professionally because the perception was, 'You don't think too much, you can't play in positions of responsibility so you play on the wing or up front.' Lots were lost to the game because of the perception.
Until we change our perception of a BAME person's capabilities, in all walks of life, we will be given less opportunities and less time to succeed.
How many black people are there in the higher echelons of any industry? We can talk about journalism, we can talk about politics. So why should football be any different?
I am no different from a lot of people. I am concerned for the future of my children and concerned for the future of all children.
If you believe you always have to sign players and the players start to believe that, that's when you lose matches.
If you are black then you have to be better than your white counterpart to be equal. That's life.
There is no right or wrong way of playing football.
Football is all about scoring goals.
My mother made me believe in reincarnation, in karma. If I live a good life, I believe I will be reincarnated as a higher being. If I live a bad life, I believe I will be reincarnated as a lower being.
I felt I had to take the Celtic opportunity. You quickly learn that any managerial vacancy attracts up to 60 or 70 applicants, so you need a good reason to turn a job down. A start is a start.
I used to go to the school plays my kids were in, and who were the angels at Christmas time? The blonde, blue-eyed girls. Who was Mary? And the shepherds were all the black and Indian kids in the background.
Yes, my clothes don't reflect my personality at all. Because I'm a very straightforward and serious person. My clothes are much flasher than I am. Yeh. Yeh, yeh. It's a good contrast. I don't think your clothes should reflect your personality... keep people on their toes.
