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Quote by Jackie Joyner-Kersee
When I was in elementary school, we werent allowed to do sports ot

When I was in elementary school, we werent allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first. – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken – its only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me. – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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Growing up in the time of Title IX – it was passed when I was 10 – I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in womens sports. Of course I didnt know it at the time. – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents. – Will McDonough

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Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLAs first NCAA title in track. – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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Winning is overrated, because winning and losing are both your acceptance of being rated. – Carrie Latet

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In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go. – Andy Roddick

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