Lesley Visser quotes
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“For years, I stored my sweaters in the oven.”
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“What kept me going through all the years? More than anything, the love of and respect for competition. That's what it comes down to for me. That's why I do this.”
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“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
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“When I started, the press credentials said 'No women or children in the press box,' ... There are a lot of things in the workplace that you can attempt to hide, and I could not hide the fact that I was a woman. I was always the only woman in the press box, and they didn't even have ladies rooms.”
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“I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.”
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“That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.”
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“My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.”
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“I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.”
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“Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
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“My girlfriend still doesn't know why her sweaters are always stretched out.”
Source : "Fictional character: Ed Wood". "Ed Wood", 1994.
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