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Quote by Carl Lewis
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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Being No. 1. Its talked about all of the time in hip-hop. Im still No. 1! Im the best! Im the greatest of all time! Its the same mentality in sports. – Michael Rapaport

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But I was very much into sports when I was a child. – Eva Herzigova

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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons. – Samuel Richardson

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I am so fidgety – I swear I have ADD – and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports. – Kellan Lutz

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