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Flo Hyman became America's best-known volleyball player with a faulty aorta, but she did not know it.

It's changed from one-hit wonder to 'Greg Rutherford wins events.' That's what I've always wanted, that level of recognition.

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.

Of course awards matter.

I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe.

You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.

I don't really care about awards.

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

Man, I'm in the World Golf Hall of Fame. Don't forget that, now. I'm in the World Golf Hall of Fame with all the players. That little old golf I played was all right, wasn't it?

You mustn't take any award so seriously.