Words matter. These are the best Andre Gray Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I can’t even count how many times I’ve been pulled over. I can’t count how many times I’ve gone to a club and not got in, how many times a security guard has followed me round a shop. I can’t count how many times that somebody has asked me if I’m a footballer because I’ve come out of a nice car.
The Brexit thing says it all. It’s all to do with immigration and the people that have voted to leave the EU… for me, it’s because of racism, because they don’t want people coming into our country.
I’ve learned from my mistakes and wrongdoings.
I don’t think a lot of people understand the situations I’ve been involved in and the way I grew up. I took myself away from it and made something out of a bad situation.
My family know me. They see who I am and how I’ve come out of the situation I’ve been in. And I’m still with them, they know me on a day-to-day basis.
Racism has been in football since football started, it’s never going away, it’s never got better. It’s just noticed more because everything is on TV, everything is magnified.
I know I can score goals, regardless of anything else that might be my weaknesses, I know I can score goals.
Before, if I’m in the wrong situation I tended to fight back and react in a way I know I shouldn’t. If I feel backed into a corner or threatened, I will defend myself. Obviously it’s wrong.
In terms of school, we never got taught anything about black history. Growing up, a lot of things are hidden away from you.
All kids of all races need to understand, not just about black history but their own history. It’s something that will help you in the future, just in terms of moving on in life, understanding the things your ancestors had to go through.
I was in clubs with the wrong crowd who were still in bad trouble with other people. But sometimes it’s hard when they’re your friends to get away from it.
It’s hard to prove your point to the public when they don’t know who you are. Everyone is outside looking in, but I’m sure people that actually know me, know what I’m about.
I’ll never forget where I came from or who my friends are. But I know there is a time and a place to be with them. That’s not being with 20 or 30 people in a nightclub or walking around the streets.
The main reason I got released from Shrewsbury in the first place was for what I was doing off the pitch.
When I go to America, I’m fortunate enough to stay in the nicer areas but the last time I went there – to New York last October, November – I went and explored. I went to the rough areas – to Brooklyn, Harlem, the Bronx; I walked around and you see it first-hand, what life is like out there.
It’s difficult for my mum because she doesn’t know half of the things that happened. She might think the sun shines out of me. That’s the case with a lot of parents and their children – they don’t really know what goes on when they leave the house.
I’m a private person. People just see me as the bad boy, and if that’s how they want to perceive me, then so be it – but they don’t know who I am.
I try not to think about where I would be now if I had stayed in Wolverhampton. Jail. That’s the way I would have seen it. It was just part and parcel of where I grew up and the lifestyle I was in.
I’m not just gonna get a random rapper tattooed on me.
I went to Zanzibar on holiday and there was a lot there about civil rights and there was a museum, where there are old slave chambers. It was horrible to go to and they’ve still got the chains there. It opens your eyes a lot.
My mum brought me up but it’s hard for a woman to try to teach a son man things, so I’ve had to practically raise myself.
I want to score 15-20 goals a season in the Premier League. I want to be up there doing that. I know that I can do that.
I didn’t have time to worry about the great big scar on my face, I just had to be relieved I hadn’t been stabbed in the eye or the neck. I had to accept what had happened and move on and football helped me to do that.
I’ve got to a point where I’ve done everything that I set out to do and more. I’m living my dream. It’s just about now, finding that other level to go push for. That’s what I’ve been doing and that’s what I want to do.
When I was at Hinckley it was just a case of taking it one step at a time – try to get into the Conference, then League Two and so on.
