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• Our message of the day is service does not need a title.

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

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• When I run – you can see my record – I run to win.

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• I’m not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what’s going on in the media. I’m supposed to be the typical amateur who’s 22 and scared to death and can’t believe he won the Olympics.

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• 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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• I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

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• I enjoy my life, I love track, I’m set for life financially.

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• I’ve always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to get to the top. But somehow I never thought it would happen to me.

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• Whether I’m 40, 50 or 60, I’m going to be as physically strong as I am able.

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• I’m not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I’m growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.

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• I’m very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don’t want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.

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• ‘m so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.

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• An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.

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• I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it’s about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.

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• At the end of the day, if you’re a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

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• I don’t feel I’m qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

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• I’m not a coach and I know it. I’m too busy and it doesn’t pay. I’m expensive. But I would always advise.

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• I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I’m a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.

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• 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.

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• Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that’s wonderful. But if the acting doesn’t work, fine. I’ll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn’t work, fine. I’ve got a lot of other stuff.

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Carl Lewis (46)

Birth:	1st July, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Athlete

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Carl Lewis was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He is an American former track and field athlete, who won 10 Olympic medals, including nine gold, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold. His career spanned from 1979 to 1996 when he last won an Olympic title and subsequently retired.

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