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“No one runs fast without an extreme amount of training. Like today, you see kids walking around dribbling a basketball. I had a bag with track shoes in it, and I used to go to the track every day.”

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Author:Edwin Moses

“I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played volleyball, basketball, and I ran track. I was always very conscious of my body.”

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Author:Joan Smalls

“I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am.”

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Author:Terry Crews

“Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.”

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Book:Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sports

Source: Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sports

“I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns.”

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Author:Will McDonough

“[At nine years old] I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.”

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Author:Elana Meyers

“I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.”

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Author:Bo Jackson

“Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.”

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Author:Jesse Jackson

“I grew up on basketball, volleyball, that sort of thing. For me, track and field was a whole 'nother beast.”

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Author:Stephan James

“I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track.”

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Author:Sarah Shahi

“I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.”

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Author:Gabrielle Union

“The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.”

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Author:Don Meyer