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Professional sports is a business.
Lynn Swann / American Football Player
Sports
Professional Sports
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I feel like there should be more black head coaches.
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Sports
Black
Coaches
Should
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I was not a very good football player when I started out.
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Football
Football Player
Player
Very Good
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Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.
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Embarrassed
Embarrassment
People
Play
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I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.
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Abuse
Minorities
Thinking
Experienced
Racial
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I enjoy playing the game. It's hard for me to just watch it, even while broadcasting.
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Sports
Broadcasting
Games
Watches
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When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.
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Girl
Aggressive
College
Football
Extremely
Flag
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Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.
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Sports
Concerned
Dollars
Player
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We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?
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Sports
African American
Option
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Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.
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Opportunity
Sports
Doors
Entertainment
African
African Americans
Closed
Windows
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And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.
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Loyalty
Cities
Owners
Player
Team
Historically
Opposed
Paying
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I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.
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Faith
Sports
Acknowledge
Christian
Christians
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Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.
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Running
Distance
Football
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Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.
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Education
Sports
Country
Impact
Discover
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I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.
Lynn Swann / American Football Player
Dance
Sports
Balance
Ballet
Body
Jazz
Lessons
Rhythm
Timing
Years
Control
Deal
Tap
Great Deal
Helped
Included
Sense
Several
Took
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This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.
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Color
Differences
People
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If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.
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Sports
Elsewhere
Player
Team
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Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new name who has demonstrated the ability to handle the job.
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Jobs
Sports
Ability
Coaches
Handle
Recycled
Successful
Face
Instead
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