Peter Shilton Quotes

We all deal with being unfairly judged.

People always ask me why I still want to play, but I want to know why no one will give me an opportunity. It's like they put a stamp on me: 'Hall of Fame. You're done. That's it.'

Do not hear one and judge two.

When you are different, that can lead to judges not marking you right because they think you look 'odd' - and that's in any competition.

I'm not trying to prove anything. People look at me, and they take things away from me because of a movie. They don't really see the skills and the kind of player I am. That's why I get downgraded so much, because of something off the field.

I think I've been completely underestimated in the past because of my blonde hair.

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.

I just want an opportunity. If you don’t like the audition, don’t hire me! But if you don’t want to even see me - that’s hurtful. And why? You know nothing about me!

Fairness is actually not having presumptive negativity written about you and always assuming the worst about you.

The consequences for failure are very different if you're a woman or a person of color than they are if you're a guy. If you're a guy who makes a mistake, you get a second chance. Often, for those of us who are outsiders, we make a mistake, and that's the end of the conversation.

Color don't mean anything. People gonna try to put you in a place one way or the other.

I've had nights where it's very obvious that I'm the good guy, but I'm still booed, and you can kind of make a checklist about reasons why they're booing me, and one of the evident ones is because of my name and where I'm from.

The trouble is that people are all too ready to jump to conclusions about anybody who they think looks a bit strange. They think you must be mentally subnormal.

Colorism is unfortunately still an issue today.

Prejudice is not just a personal sentiment - it can be institutional too.

When your outlet is taken away from you, when your catharsis is stripped from you and you don't understand why, and you're so disappointed, and you're so blindsided by it, it hurts.

I assume everyone is going to hate my music before listening to it or hate me before meeting me because of where I come from and my name - it's not Smith or Taylor.

Hollywood is hard on everyone, but it really is harder on women and people of color.

We don't properly discriminate. We never discriminate properly when we're dealing with another group and one of the big problems about religion is that religious people don't know that they are probably as flagrant in these misjudgments as irreligious people.

All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something. We make terrible assumptions.

The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how we naturally discriminate.

Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.

I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.