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"In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports."
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"Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL."
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"With the crowds on your side, it's easier to play up to your potential."
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"Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much."
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"I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation."
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"When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman."
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"One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer."
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"All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League."
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"So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track."
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"I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all."
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"It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer."
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"When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman."
Sports
"I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport."
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"The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing."
Care
"Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from."
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"Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever."
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"In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports."
Sports
"In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it."
Family
"I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time."
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"A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time."
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"That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question."
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