Athletes as role models
Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes. Gale Sayers
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Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes. Gale Sayers
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it. Gale Sayers
I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had. Gail Devers
I hope I just show women that its OK to inhabit your own body. Im not a rah-rah feminist. But its important to me that people see you can be an athlete and be strong-and also be a girl. Gabrielle
I want to take you to a place of pure magic… It’s the place athletes call the zone. Buddhists call satori and ravers call trance. I call it the Silver Desert. It’s a place of pure light that holds the dark within it. It’s a place of pure rhythm. Gabrielle Roth
you’d definitely think of me more as a good sport than as an athlete. Gabrielle Burton
I’m not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I’m a female athlete personality. Gabrielle Reece
It’s an incredible feeling, 110,000 people energy at that level. What I realized from watching the first day of competition was that athletes that got excited and happy and got the fans into it and clapping, they did better. The athletes that took it too seriously, they didn’t do as well as they’d hoped. Gabe … Read more
Often I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride. It’s really crazy. In races, this always happens to me. I see the vision of a runner ahead of me, maybe just 15, 20 meters ahead of me, and the cadence of that runner, which is actually me … Read more
O.J. Simpson was primarily interested in O.J. His rise to fame in the late ’60s coincided with the period where black athletes were more outspoken and political than in any era. You’re talking about the generation of black athletes that came about after Jackie Robinson. Athletes after that were just happy to find a place … Read more