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"The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages."
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"Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues."
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"I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you."
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"I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime."
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"What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things."
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"I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood."
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"Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home."
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"I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant."
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"Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone."
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"When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again."
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"The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it."
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"Football said,"Why I am not a cricket ball to get a shot from Sachin"."
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"Cricket must be proud, "I played by Sachin Tendulkar"."
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"Sachin is passionate for cricket and fame is passionate for Sachin."
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"The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green."
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"Century was an occasional thing in cricket, Sachin made it frequent."
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"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."
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"Football has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting."
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"A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play."
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"Sports for me is: S for Skill, P for Perseverance, O for Optimism, R for Resilience, T for Tenacity, S for Stamina"
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"Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing."
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