DeAndre Yedlin Quotes

I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

The more people who come from abroad who played soccer and are brought up playing it and watching it, then come over to America and bring what they know and what they play, that's how the sport will grow.

I think it's important to make clear, you know, that the problem with American soccer... it isn't talent.

I think soccer in America is growing exponentially, and it's just going to keep getting bigger.

My wish is that soccer in the U.S. become on the same level like the Premier League, Spanish league, or the Bundesliga.

It should be very normal to see people of different races and ethnic minorities playing different parts.

There's so much diversity on TV. It's actually reflecting American culture.

I don't think kids of color should have to search far and wide to find books that reflect their experience.

We want the N.W.S.L. to grow. It is growing; it's continuously growing every year. We want it to be sustainable. It's separate in the sense that this is a U.S. Soccer thing, but the idea is to grow soccer in general, and we want to do that any way we can.

We need more diversity - we need more African-Americans on screen, Latinos, Asians, different religions. We have to be better about reflecting what our world looks like.

I think, probably, socially, in some ways New York may be the least American city. It represents too many things that Americans really don't entirely want in their lives.

Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.

I had always wanted to do a show of girls of color, a show that showcased diversity.

Having brought diversity to the air in the way that we have with Kerry Washington and Viola Davis toplining their shows, and then shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' and 'Black-ish,' have been very important. I look forward to continuing in that vein.

But I think there is a space for a second league, which is UTS, that is more modern, and is targeting a difference audience.

I grew up influenced by different cultures, sounds, feelings, emotions, and I want Premiere Classe to be a representation of that.

You can't obviously predict the future, but I am a fan of the United States and soccer over there continues to grow.

When I was in school, I didn't get exposed to Latino playwrights.

What I love about my audience is it's extremely diverse as far as the ethnicities and the ages that show up.

I think I'm very fortunate to have a pan-Indian appeal.

I think it's about the feeling more than a language. And I think that we and every culture in the world has to keep their own language just to bring something else, something different, and show a different vision of the world, actually. And that's why I'm trying to keep my language.

Growing up in Malaysia, there wasn't really a problem with representation. We saw faces like ours on screen because Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, China and Hong Kong all have their own film markets. It was only until I went back to the U.K. when I realized, 'Where did all these faces go?'

I was not grown up in the U.S., nor in Japan. In order to create a video game that people around the globe can enjoy and relate to, I can't draw things deeply rooted in the local culture that I'm not familiar with. That's why we are not doing games about football or samurai.

I think it's really important that we have diversity - whether it's different languages, cultures - be involved in film and in the arts.

I wish that all different types of people of all races and all upbringings were all equally represented in this industry that influences so many people.