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Ralph Boston Quotes

1939–2023 United States

Ralph Harold Boston (May 9, 1939 – April 30, 2023) was an American track athlete who received three Olympic medals and became the first person to break the barrier in the long jump.

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My advice is to work hard and work smart. Learn about what you want to accomplish. Be sharp, and find out what you need to do to succeed.

That was a day that I guess ‘changed my life’ is a good phrase. Appropriate, You think about how a life has changed and how life changed and how things have happened since then.

Suddenly people recognized me. Before that night nobody outside of Laurel, Mississippi, knew who I was and the people in Laurel knew me as Hawkeye Boston, not Ralph Boston.

The Rome Olympics was the scariest thing I've ever done in my life. There was nothing like walking into the Olympic stadium and 80,000 people are watching you. The funny thing is after I finished, I thought it was a horrible jump.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ralph Boston (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.