“Mark Sanchez will experience a few difficulties in the beginning of his career. He will experience not being embraced and ‘well, he is really not Mexican’ or ‘he is from the U.S. and really doesn’t speak Spanish.’
“(But) he can exceed beyond expectations of what I accomplished. Mark Sanchez has embraced his culture, and I feel that the sport that he is in and the visibility he gets can be a huge crossover. Here in the States, Hispanics and Latinos, we love American football. Now it makes me proud to know that Mark Sanchez has Hispanic roots and I’m definitely supporting the man.”
— Boxer Oscar De La Hoya in the New York Daily News.