"I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports."
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"You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport."
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"The only time I got the absolute most insanely nervous in my life was at the Olympic trials, because archery is a horrible spectator sport. Nobody goes and watches an archery tournament. Because the targets are three-quarters of a football field away. Who can tell who's winning? You can't even see your own target from where you are."
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"I was all limbs and I was very convinced that I must be uncoordinated, so I didn't want to try any sports. And the girls' basketball team was constantly like, "Please, please just come play.""
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"I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability.""
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"Maybe you can't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had."
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"It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement."
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"Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair."
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"It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play."
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"You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now."
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"Healthy body, healthy mind and healthy spirit. A Votre Sante."
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"I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game."
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"We need more young women who love sports even when their boyfriend/husband isn't making them watch!"
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"You're actually inside the surfboard... you're inside the landscape around you and the ocean is surging, you get totally inside the moment and it's so intense that time disappears, you disappear."
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"LT was just a wilder person. I don't go that route no more."
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"As players, we always have a way to get back at you."
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"I played one game, and one game played me."
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"You know, softball is the other sport I do besides basketball."
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"When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports."
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"It's hard for me to congratulate somebody after you just lose to them. I'm a winner. It's not being a poor sport or anything like that. If somebody beats you up, you're not going to congratulate them. That doesn't make sense to me. I'm a competitor."
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