Quotes and Sayings about Fairness

Life is not fair, get used to it!

Win or lose, do it fairly!

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

You can own the Earth and still
All you'll own is Earth until
You can paint with all the colors of the wind

God never made no difference between black, white, blue, pink or green. People is people, y'know. That's the message we try to spread.

Why can't they understand the way we feel?
They just don't trust, what they can't explain
I know we're different, but deep inside us
We're not that different at all

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

I am not gay. Although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.

Do we have to know who's gay and who's straight? Can't we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive?

At this point I have a request for our fans. If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the f*ck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records.

James Royce: "The Christians and the Jews didn't blow up the Capitol or run planes into the Twin Towers. Muslims did."
Emily Rhodes: "No, sir. Extremists did. And persecuting innocent people won't make any of us safer."

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.

I respect people of all sexualities; I respect people of all religions, all faiths.

I'm a human being before anything else.

I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

Facism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling.

The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.

There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.

My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

You really need to consider the message you're sending this boys by ending the lockout. It's the same message that we as a culture send to our professional athletes; and that is that they are above the law. If these boys cannot honor the simple rules of a basketball contract, how long do you think it will be before they're out there breaking the law? I played ball here at Richmond High 30 years ago. It was the same thing then; some of my teammates went to prison, some of them even ended up dead. If you vote to end the lockout, you won't have to terminate me; I'll quit.

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

When you go running from 23:59 to 00:01, you worked out two days in a row. Doesn't sound bad, does it?

Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.

What I really love about sports isn't winning, ya know? It's having to fight and struggle and give it all you got to reach the top.

When you're rowing a race and you get to the last 20 meters your entire body is telling you to stop. Your muscles are on fire. Your lungs are screaming at you. Everything inside you wants to quit, make the pain go away. But if you want to win, that's exactly when you dig deeper and you row harder.

People always ask me, "what is your secret?" I'll tell you what the secret is: Work your a-s off in the gym, 14 times a week.

You don't quit in sports. You retire. You don't get to quit. It's not an option.

If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you've already retired.

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

Jogging is the worst. I know it keeps you healthy, but God, at what cost?

Sometimes it's just enough to keep your body moving. I get depressed if I don't move.

When you read biographies of Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Pete Sampras or Roger Federer, you will often stumble upon the word "humility".

Fitness has nothing to do with age.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

Physical fitness is extremely important to me. Only if you are fit will you be able to achieve whatever you want to achieve in life; you will be able to pursue your dreams, your ambition, you goals, and the things you love.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces people into thinking they can't lose.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.