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Looking back, which parts of your working life mattered, and which parts only seemed important at the time?

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Read by field Everyone Arts and letters 2 Politics and public life 1 Business and finance 1 Sport 3
Read by age Any age In their forties 1 In their sixties 2 Seventy and beyond 3
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Pete Rozelle Commissioner of the National Football League, 1960–1989
An ungodly amount. So much of timing and luck was involved. When I look back, I think if things just hadn't worked out as they did on every occasion, I'd have never gotten where I did.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 28 June 1991 source ↗
John Wooden Basketball coach at UCLA, 1948-1975; winner of ten NCAA championships
That's all I was: a teacher. That's all I was as a basketball coach, just a teacher.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 28 October 2000 source ↗
Sir Roger Bannister Middle-distance runner and neurologist; first man to run a mile in under four minutes
So the values were career, medicine. Sport was something other, something to be set aside.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 7 June 2002 source ↗

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