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Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Beca

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

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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

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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete. – Carl Lewis

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Im not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher whats going on in the media. Im supposed to be the typical amateur whos 22 and scared to death and cant believe he won the Olympics. – Carl Lewis

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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up! – Fergie

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If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser. – John Donne, 1623

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When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury. – Fran Lebowitz

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