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Bob Richards [1926-0] American
Rank: 107
Athlete, Olympic athlete


Robert Eugene "Bob" Richards is 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.

Courage



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Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles. Courage
101
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.
102
I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
103

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