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“The vast majority - 98.4 percent - of college football players in the U.S. with aspirations to play professional football never get that opportunity.”
― James R. Wallen, Gridiron Underground: Black American Journeys in Canadian Football

“It meant that I and every other woman I knew had been living a lie, and all the doctors who treated us and the experts who studied us were perpetuating that lie, and our homes and schools and churches and politics and professions were built around that lie," she (Betty Friedan) wrote. "If women were really people -- no more, no less -- then all the things that kept them from being full people in our society would have to be changed. And women, once they broke through the feminine mystique and took themselves seriously as people, would see their place on a false pedestal, even their glorification as sexual objects, for the putdown it was.”
― Andrew Maraniss, Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First US Women's Olympic Basketball Team

“Endocrine profiling was not an authorized IOC anti-doping tool at the time. What's more, endocrine profiling had never before been used to confirm a positive doping result. Johnson was singled out as the lone athlete out of more than eight thousand in Seoul to be subjected to the test. As Charlie Francis would later muse, if Donike's test was so reliable, why wasn't it used on every Olympic athlete? And if it was not reliable, why use it only on Johnson?”
― Mary Ormsby, World's Fastest Man: The Incredible Life of Ben Johnson

“The elders constantly reminded Sacred Feathers of the need to make a vision quest -- to obtain, through fasting, a guardian spirit to guide and protect them through life. Animals, birds, and fish could speak with them and, in a dream or vision, give their power.”
― Donald B. Smith, Sacred Feathers: The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians