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When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

Dick Fosbury

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Dick Fosbury
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 6
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Portland
Oregon
Richard Douglas Fosbury
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