Stringfellow Hawke
07-14-2005, 05:54 PM
There's a pro sports quote from a few years back that I'm looking for, but I can't place it and it's driving me nuts.
The quote is from the past five years. I think it might be 2001-2003 (not sure). It came from a pro athlete who was quoted as saying, "Nobody understands the rage inside me" or something like that. The media raked the poor guy over the coals because he was a very well-paid pro athlete (I think in baseball, but it might have been another sport). I also remember thinking that the media backlash came as much from racism as it did from a desire to criticize a "spoiled", overpaid athlete because the athlete in question happened to be African-American and he was discussing the issue of racism in the U.S. when he made that statement.
Does anybody know what I'm talking about?
The quote is from the past five years. I think it might be 2001-2003 (not sure). It came from a pro athlete who was quoted as saying, "Nobody understands the rage inside me" or something like that. The media raked the poor guy over the coals because he was a very well-paid pro athlete (I think in baseball, but it might have been another sport). I also remember thinking that the media backlash came as much from racism as it did from a desire to criticize a "spoiled", overpaid athlete because the athlete in question happened to be African-American and he was discussing the issue of racism in the U.S. when he made that statement.
Does anybody know what I'm talking about?