"Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence."
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"Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.“
-Lewis H. Lapham
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