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One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
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If you want to be the person you ought to be, you've got to welcome competition.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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Born:
February 20, 1926
Died:
February 26, 2023
(aged 97)
Bio:
Robert Eugene "Bob" Richards was a versatile athlete who made three US Olympic Teams in two events: the 1948, 1952, and 1956 Summer Olympics as a pole vaulter, and as a decathlete in 1956.
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