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Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

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Carl Lewis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: July 1
Athletics Competitor
Long Jumper
Poet
Sprinter
Track And Field Athlete
Birmingham
Alabama
Frederick Carlton Carl Lewis
Development
Achieve
Smash
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Millennium
Goal
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Final
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Poverty

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By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation.
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I always separated sports and my personal life.
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I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Our message of the day is service does not need a title.
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Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
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I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection.
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Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.
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The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
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