Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
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No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helps you.
I had to fight for what I achieved.
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.
In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.
I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
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