Snoop Dogg Quotes

My dream is to get the young people off the streets, to make it possible for them to play football in the stadium instead.

Growing up in Terre Haute, Indiana, there's not a whole lot to do. What I did was I just went to the basketball court at the Boys & Girls Club and literally stayed there all day until my mom got off of work.

Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.

We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them shoot people.

Honestly, I was a troublemaker. The environment I grew up in, my mom and my sister, they decided they were going to sign me up in every single thing to keep me busy. I played football, basketball, baseball. Anything, whatever was in season, I was signed up for it. Basketball was one of the things that just stuck.

If I wasn't playing basketball, I would be in the streets.

The problem of drugs is a national failure. We do not grow cocoa leaves in Albany.

I can tell you that the formula works, and works pretty well. You avoid criminals and violence, you refuse their mode of money that nourishes the cartels, and that is a great solution to the violence problem. In relation to the health problem, I have not ever heard of anybody dying from an overdose of marijuana.

Getting involved with the Boys and Girls Club helped keep me and my sister from getting in trouble.

Our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs will destroy your life.

I've never done drugs. That's because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was 3 or 4 years old.

You prevent kids from joining gangs by offering after-school programs, sports, mentoring, and positive engagement with adults. You intervene with gang members by offering alternatives and employment to help redirect their lives. You deal with areas of high gang crime activity with real community policing. We know what works.

If I look back down the years, how I was treated as a kid, if it wasn't for the teachers at my school, then I wouldn't have achieved what I have. You have to look where you came from, and we do need to get more parents involved, more running clubs and more schools. They can make a difference.

The song 'Assassins Of Youth'... 'Assassins of youths' is what they used to call drugs in the old days when they first started the anti-drug campaign. And it's kind of an anti-drug record.

Be in no doubt: we are completely committed to make sure we support young people with the additional resources that are necessary to give them the alternatives to the offer that's put forward by the terrible criminals on the streets.

If drugs are bad, any respectable society should do something to deal with them.

My parents always kept my brothers and I in sports to keep us out of trouble.

We want cricket to grow for kids, and for families to come and watch.

I've never done drugs in my life.

I don't do drugs. I don't like drugs.

Kids, don't do drugs, and pay your taxes.

Sports help women stay in school longer and make them less likely to use drugs, break the law, or get pregnant at an early age.

I want to tell the youth that we should not do drugs.

Football made me want to train and stay disciplined. It kept me away from things like drugs. Young people are faced with the temptation to stray all the time.

Anyone who advocates pill testing is giving the green light to drugs. That is absolutely unacceptable.