Quotes by Adam Goodes - Page 1

I grew up playing soccer and it's definitely my first love.
Adam Goodes /
First Love
Grew
Soccer
Definitely
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When I retired I was done and it was instant relief. Instant.
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Instant
Relief
Retired
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My mum taught me to treat people the way I want to be treated.
Adam Goodes /
Mum
Taught
Me People Way
Me Treat People
Treat
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Injuries weren't the reason why I retired. I retired on my own terms.
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Retired
Injuries
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Football, for me, was a place where I got accepted for being a good footballer.
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Accepted
Footballer
Good Football Me
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You know obviously my stand on racism is that it's unacceptable and that we should always stand up to it.
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Racism
Stand
Obviously
Stand Up
Unacceptable
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If people have got a problem with me, say it to me. If you're going to hurt my feelings, I'm going to point you out.
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Hurt
Me People Feelings
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By the end of my career I just really hated being out there on that field and being subjected to what was happening to me.
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Hated
Career
Field
Happening
Subjected
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I'm not afraid of confrontation. It doesn't have to be an argument. We all have a voice. And they are all worth listening to.
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Argument
Confrontation
Listening
Voice
Afraid
Worth
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I don't think there's too many Aboriginal people out there who are successful that don't want to help make gains for our people.
Adam Goodes /
Aboriginal
Gains
People Help Who
Our People
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The best thing that I did was get myself out of an environment that was toxic to me and to my mental health. That was through retiring from football.
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Health
Environment
Football
Mental Health
Retiring
Toxic
Mental
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Whenever I had been racially vilified before it had been by peers or drunk men. It's more shocking when it's a 13-year-old child. No 13-year-old is racist.
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Drunk
Peers
Shocking
Child
Vilified
Whenever
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What I've seen, and the reactions from 'The Final Quarter' and 'The Australian Dream', is that a lot more people are more willing to share their stories around racism.
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Australian
Racism
Reactions
More People
Quarter
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I play over-35s soccer on the weekend to get my fix of running into people and crashing and bashing, and I still have that desire to win in the sport that I play. I don't think that'll ever lose me.
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Soccer
Weekend
Me Lose People
Crashing
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Because women are more than the people who raise our children, they are fantastic leaders in their own rights in our community, and we want to give them the same safe environment, as we would expect.
Adam Goodes /
Our Community
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I was very lucky to have fantastic leaders before me in Paul Kelly, Leo Barry, Brett Kirk, Craig Bolton, Mick O'Loughlin and Stuart Maxfield, and all of those players led in completely different ways.
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Different Ways
Fantastic
Lucky
Barry
Craig
Leaders
Led
Leo
Paul
Stuart
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Growing up, I knew I was different. But I didn't know what it meant to be Aboriginal. I just knew that I had a really big, extended family. I was taught nothing about who we were or where we came from.
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Aboriginal
Extended Family
Growing
Growing Up
Meant To Be
Taught
Meant
Came
Family Nothing Know
Extended
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Yeah you just have to be true to yourself, know where you come from, make sure that your relationships with family members back in country, back home, are really strong so that connection is always there.
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Family
Home
Country
Family Members
Members
Strong
Yeah
Family Home Always
Yourself
Home Always Yourself
Come
Family Home Yourself
Sure
Make
True
Back
Be True
Connection
Family Home Country
Relationships
Where
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I've been visiting community centres and schools for 20-plus years and what I've seen is that kids are kids, they want to learn. They learn from experiences, they ask questions when they don't know something.
Adam Goodes /
Visiting
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So for me, you can't control the media, you have to work with media to get your message out there and you just hope that there's enough good honest reporting and people in the media that can get that job done.
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Done
Honest
Media
Control
Work Hope Good
Job
Message
Reporting
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It's fun, and a laugh for you... you can boo me and feel happy about yourself because you're part of the crowd that did that. But deep down there were people in that crowd booing me because of my Aboriginality.
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Booing
Deep Down
Fun
Yourself Me People
Boo
Crowd
Me Yourself People
Me Yourself Fun
Laugh
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Yes, we do need better representation, but I'm a big believer that we also need to talk about the Uluru Statement of the Heart. We need all of Australia to understand what it was, and is, and what that movement is about.
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Believer
Representation
Big Believer
Statement
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There's nothing, today, that excites me, or that makes me think I would like to be back in AFL circles. I have no interest. No interest whatsoever. My love for the game died inside of me in those final years of me playing.
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Circles
Excites
No Interest
Whatsoever
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I ask every Australian to think about what the constitutional exclusion says to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, to see our vast and inspiring history in this land not mentioned in the official picture like that.
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Inspiring
History
Aboriginal
Australian
Exclusion
Land
Ask
Picture
Constitutional
Vast
Mentioned
Official
Says
Strait
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The football field was a place where I could express myself and just be me. Play the game as well as you can and that's what you're judged on. Not the colour of your skin, or your beliefs, or the conversation you have around racism.
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Colour
Conversation
Football
Football Field
Judged
Play
Racism
Myself Football Me
Me
Myself
Myself Football Game
Skin
Around
Myself Me Game
Game
Beliefs
Football Game Me
Could
Express
Field
Just Be
Place
Well
Where
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If I'm only defined by my sport, I really have failed. Yes, I've opened myself up for more criticism, but I'm a professional athlete. I get criticised every week. I'm used to it. It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, but you get used to it.
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Athlete
Criticism
Defined
Hurt
Professional Athlete
Failed
Sport
Opened
Professional
Yes
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At the end of the day, it's my choice to do the lap. At the end of the day, it was my choice not to be nominated for the Madden medal. I had my last football responsibility as the club Best and Fairest and that's what I was looking for.
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Lap
Medal
Fairest
Nominated
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For me it's about supporting our Indigenous kids and completing that whole journey: early childhood, primary school, high school, university and then career. I want to be a part of that process all the way, wearing lots of different hats.
Adam Goodes /
Completing
Early Childhood
Hats
Indigenous
Primary School
Primary
Supporting
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As a kid we moved around a fair bit as a family. It was difficult to make friends but sport helped. Once people saw you kick a football it broke down barriers. Instead of being the new skinny black kid you were the kid everyone wanted on their team.
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Barriers
Broke
Moved
Skinny
Family Football People
Sport
Fair
Helped
Instead
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You need to understand how you lead, and in my case it is through my actions and the way I bring others into the game and also how I am able to form relationships. I am somebody who can earn people's trust, and that's crucial to how I try to lead the team.
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Crucial
Actions
Case
Earn
Relationships
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The support of my mother has made such a difference in my life, sacrificing everything to make sure that we went to school, did our homework, got an education. That was one person supporting me, and it takes more than one person in our community to help raise our children.
Adam Goodes /
Education
Community
Homework
Made
Mother
Our Community
School
Support
Life Education Me
Did
Got
Help
My Life
Raise
Sacrificing
Takes
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That's what I love about Australia: we can do things the way we want to do them, because that's the way our country is - no matter what culture you come from, you can come to Australia and practise your religion, you can practise your beliefs, and you shouldn't be judged for it.
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Religion
Australia
Country
Judged
Matter
Practise
Beliefs
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I enrolled to do a TAFE course on Indigenous Studies, and over the next two-and-a-half years of my course I learned so much about my people and my culture in a broader sense. It made me so proud of my Aboriginality and our history in this country, which dates back over 40,000 years.
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History
Indigenous
Next
Proud
Culture Me People
Broader
Course
Dates
Enrolled
Learned
Sense
Studies
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I just figured that, for me to get the best out of myself and do the right thing by myself, I really just needed to step away and find out what I really wanted to do and hopefully getting back to where my people are from and getting out bush could really re-energise me and help heal those wounds.
Adam Goodes /
Heal
Hopefully
Needed
Right Thing
Wounds
Best Myself Me
Bush
Do The Right Thing
Figured
Step
The Right Thing
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I think any time people are recognised for standing up for what they believe in and the way that they do it is a step forward, because if we don't stand up for what we believe in and we let people get away with not educating them for things that they have said they're going to think that behaviour is acceptable.
Adam Goodes /
Acceptable
Behaviour
Stand
Time Believe People
Educating
Forward
Recognised
Stand Up
Step
Step Forward
Time People
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