Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, lets make it amateur again. – Carl Lewis
There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete. – Carl Lewis
Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about me. Whats happened to we as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people. – Carl Lewis
I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the Daily Pennsylvanian and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page. – H. G. Bissinger