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"There is nothing like race, is there?"
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"It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered."
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"The Afro-American is not a bestial race."
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"Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists."
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"I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race."
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"In the biological sense, race does not exist."
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"A race cannot be purified from without."
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"I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves."
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"The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team."
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"She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was *white.* Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt!"
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"The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy."
Sports

"I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win."
Race

"In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency."
Life

"By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it years ago."
Attitude

"There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic."
Coach

"If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second. If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on Mars. We'd both be unique."
Sports

"Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching."
Thought

"All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four."
Being

"In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night."
Age

"I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program."
Sports
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