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My life isn't interesting! It's my mom. You need to write her life and put me in it. I'm a cameo in her life.

Carl Lewis

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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
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An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.
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Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.
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When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
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After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.
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I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.
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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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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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Our message of the day is service does not need a title.
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When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.
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You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.
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Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals
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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 found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.
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Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able.
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At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.
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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'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
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