In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
“If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.”
“It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.”