A Quote by Lynn Swann
Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.
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There was this point in my life where I thought that I was not fit enough to do a full 90 on the field. I got up at maybe six o'clock in the morning, went running, then just kept doing laps.
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