“In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo.” YearsTwoSelfStoriesAgeSportsSidesChallengesPlayerShareVoteTwentiesMalesGoldenFulfillmentTennisStatus QuoEngagingHeadlinesHeroinesRight To VoteGolden AgeRoaringCounterpartsAmerican WomanSwimmerHelenTennis PlayerGertrudeChallenging The Status QuoSelf FulfillmentRoaring Twenties Author:Donna de Varona
“that's exactly what climbing is to me. ... Expression. What a painter does on a canvas, what a writer can do with the twenty-six letters in the alphabet. It's the key that unlocks my spirit, the clearest representation of who I am. When I'm focused, climbing is almost an unconscious act for me. I don't have to drive myself, I'm already driven.” DoeSpiritSportsCan DoExpressionKeysSixLettersTwentiesFocusedDrivenWho I AmPainterUnconsciousClimbingCanvasRepresentationAlphabet Author:Stacy Allison
“I don't know how old I am because a goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.” KnowsSportsKnow HowBirthTwentiesSevenGoatsCertificatesBirth Certificate Author:Satchel Paige
“You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.” ShowsSportsFiveTeamNew YorkTwentiesYankeesTwenty FiveNew York Yankees Author:Bill Lee
“Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.” MenTwoEndsFunnyGamesWinningSportsSimpleMinutesFootballBallsTwentiesSoccerGermanyChasingFunny SoccerTwenty TwoFunny SportsFunny Football Author:Gary Lineker
“Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!... Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it... and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!” ThinkingWellsI CanHomeThreeSportsCan DoHoursWonderStreetsTomorrowTwentiesLaysTrackCrowdsMilesBridgesAvoidingBikeWorth LivingCyclingRailroadsI Can Do ItCollisionLife Worth LivingRailroad Tracks Author:Jack London
“Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that day.' If you don't think that's important, you don't know what's inside an athlete's soul.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldYearsLooksI CanImportantSoulSuccessSportsTwentiesAthleteMotivational SportsQuartersMedal Author:Vincent Matthews
“When I was 15-years-old, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me.” NeedsYearsSportsArmsClothesTwentiesMirrorsI RealizedNakedMotivational SportsInchesBodybuildingMotivational BodybuildingBodybuilding MotivationGreat BodybuildingBodybuilding Motivational Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Twenty years ago people thought they were fishing nets and all sorts of things when you brought out a lacrosse stick. Now almost everywhere you go, people have heard of it, they've seen it and they're like, "Oh, that's sport I saw on TV or my grandson plays that," and it's changed the face of the game and potential of the future.” PeopleYearsPlayFacesGamesSportsSawsHeardChangedTvsYears AgoTwentiesSticksFishingGrandsonLacrosse Author:Gary Gait
“When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.” KnowsYearsMeanPlayThreeGamesSportsGoneThousandTenTwentiesSevenZeroDo You KnowBats Author:Pete Rose