I always think coming out is something that you do for people who... by John Amaechi

I always think coming out is something that you do for people who really deserve it. It should be.

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I would just never want to have someone come out for the greater good who was a celebrity and then find them slipping into like Lohanville with alcohol or drugs or something else just because they couldn't cope.

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I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models.

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I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was... social life was such a distant part of my existence when I was in school that I didn't even think about it too much.

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There was certainly nothing really sexual about my youth growing up, simply because the fact remains if you're the fat kid in a school and I was the only fat black kid in the school - in fact, I was the only black kid in the school - but if you are kind of ostracized on many different levels in your school the last thing you're worried about is sex.

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I thought kissing was good with girls, but I always thought you know it probably could be better, so there was nothing really.

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In the NBA you need a little bit more than that when Jordan is front of you. You need a little bit more than that when it is Barkley or Karl Malone or Shaq or whoever else. You need a lot more than that frankly if you're the English kid who can't jump.

We need to accept that some people are camp and some people are butch. Some people are pretty and some people are average, but we all fit.

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I'm a nerd. I like to sit in the library. I don't like to sweat. by John Amaechi

I'm a nerd. I like to sit in the library. I don't like to sweat.

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The coverage of some of the most remarkable female athletes out there, some of the most remarkable women in sports, it's nonexistent in comparison to the coverage of mediocre men.