"Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there."
"I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be."
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Source: Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. July 16, 2010.
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