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“If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.”

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Author:Daley Thompson

“"She (Minnie Ruth Solomon) was unusual because even though I knew her family was as poor as ours, nothing she said or did seemed touched by that. Or by prejudice. Or by anything the world said or did. It was as if she had something inside her that somehow made all that not count. I fell in love with her some the first time we ever talked, and a little bit more every time after that until I thought I couldn't love her more than I did. And when I felt that way, I asked her to marry me . . . and she said she would."”

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Author:Jesse Owens

“Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.”

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Author:Jerry Reinsdorf

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”

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Author:Jane Austen

“In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.”

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Author:Bob Gibson

“Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.”

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Author:Branch Rickey

“But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place.”

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Author:Marcus Allen

“"Why is it sports is the only thing white people see us being successful at? I don't want to play football," he said. "I wanna be a lawyer." "That's fine with me," I said, a little annoyed. "I've just never heard of a Negro lawyer, that's all. You've got to hear of these things before you can imagine them." "Bullshit. You gotta imagine what's never been."”

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Book:Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest

Source: Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest