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"I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school."
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"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up."
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"Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training."
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"I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it."
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"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."
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"Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools."
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"As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider."
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"My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school."
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"You ought to go to a boy's school sometime. Try it sometime," I said. "It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques."
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"In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe."
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"A good place to start initially would be school plays."
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"I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning."
Winning
"I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching."
Athleticism
"Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete."
Athleticism
"One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition."
Competition
"I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school."
School
"In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together."
People
"I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing."
Time
"I always got my work done before playing."
Work
"My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet."
Athletes
"The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track."
Life
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