I don't think it's necessary to go to any game to make a stand just because you are there. The stand is made from the heart, and you can do that in the grocery store. Tommie Smith More Quotes by Tommie Smith More Quotes From Tommie Smith It is very discouraging to be in a team with white athletes. On the track you are Tommie Smith, the fastest man in the world, but once you are in the dressing rooms you are nothing more than a dirty Negro. Tommie Smith team athlete dirty America's a great country - you better believe it's a great country, one of the greatest on this planet - but even the greatest needs to pay attention. I wish the powerful sources that run this country could understand that. Tommie Smith powerful running country I would not educate Donald trump. He is a very educated man. Tommie Smith trump educated men There was a lot of misunderstanding about what was happening because they had never seen that happen before, especially by a black athlete. Tommie Smith top-news