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Carl Lewis | success

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

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Carl Lewis | success

To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don’t really think me as a long jumper, although that’s the event I had more success in.

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Carl Lewis sports

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let’s make it amateur again.

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Carl Lewis sports

Carl Lewis | sports

I always separated sports and my personal life.

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Carl Lewis sports

Carl Lewis | sports

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you’re going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

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Carl Lewis sports

Carl Lewis | sports

Life is about timing.

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Carl Lewis Life

Carl Lewis | life

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

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Carl Lewis health

Carl Lewis | health

We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

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Carl Lewis health

Carl Lewis | health

Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about ‘me’. What’s happened to ‘we’ as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.