"When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the 'athletic phenomenon of all time,' won the British woman's gold tournament, people said of her what they had said many times before: "Oh, she's an automatic champion, a natural athlete." When Babe started golfing in earnest thirteen years ago she hit as many as 1,000 balls in one afternoon, playing until her hands were so sore they had to be taped."

-- James Keller

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“True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.”
“Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?”
“The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.”
“The Palestinian society is split into two - those who are openly calling for Israel's destruction like Hamas, and those who are not calling openly for Israel's destruction but refuse to confront those who do. They're timid, they're afraid to actually stand up to these killers. They're afraid, maybe for their own sake, for their own political hides, sometimes for their own physical safety. And they don't take that necessary plunge.”
“Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness.”
“We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.”
“I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.”
“Sometimes my skating allows me to do things I never dreamed possible.”

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