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Willie Stargell

"Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings."

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Donna Grant

"We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes, and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics, I follow our athletes careers from start to finish, 100% all the way."

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Donna Grant

"As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day."

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Donna Grant

"So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it."

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Donna Grant

"Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings."

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Donna Grant

"We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics careers are over."

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Donna Grant

"We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star."

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Donna Grant

"I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner."

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Donna Grant

"Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show."

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Donna Grant

"If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out."

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Donna Grant

"That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection."

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Willie Stargell
"To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed."

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Willie Stargell
"If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article."

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Willie Stargell
"Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects."

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Willie Stargell
"I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh."

Heart

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Willie Stargell
"The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park."

Enemy

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Willie Stargell
"I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work."

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Willie Stargell
"I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium."

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Willie Stargell
"You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots."

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Willie Stargell
"The bat is gone, but the smile remains."

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Willie Stargell
"It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know."

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