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"We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen."
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"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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"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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"We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics careers are over."
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"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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"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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"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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"That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection."
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"Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros."
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"We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen."
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"Everywhere you look these days you see Carolina athletes."
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"Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself."
People
"In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through."
Pretty
"It's been really good to have a goal and go after it. That feels good."
Goal
"It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems."
Education
"We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen."
Athletes
"I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law."
Business
"For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do."
Balance
"I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking and what they're doing. It should be a really great meet."
Nation
"Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear."
Sports
"At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are putting on the red-white-and-blue and going out there to perform for your country."
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