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It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But read more
It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not read more
Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose read more
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My read more
Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.
Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.
The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization is entirely with ourselves.
The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization is entirely with ourselves.
