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Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always…

— Marshall Faulk

It's common knowledge that professional athletes earn extraordinary incomes. What is less known or understood is how the advent of these riches has seeped…

— Douglas Brunt

For many young people growing up in minority communities, there is a sense that their lives are disposable. As athletes, we have a platform…

— Jason Collins

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

— A. A. Gill

I think we should bring up our children with much less pressure to compete and get ahead: no comparing one child with another, at…

— Benjamin Spock

I think that there’s too much sugar in the world and not enough salt. Kids want to be challenged. Humans want to aspire to…

— Buzz Williams

Compared to our era, facilities in athletics have increased manifold. But contemporary athletes are not mentally tough. The new generation wants everything easily, but…

— P. T. Usha

Athletics is a luxury.

— Roger Bannister

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many…

— Bill James

Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

— Anna Deavere Smith

When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a…

— Eric Dickerson

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports…

— Carl Lewis