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Merlin Olsen
American
Athlete
Born:
Sep 15
,
1940
Died:
Mar 11
,
2010
Football
Important
Me
Mind
Most
You
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Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.
Merlin Olsen
You
Swimming
Draw
About
Crowd
Could
Nobody
Cared
Basketball
You are the land. The land is you.
Merlin Olsen
You
Land
After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.
Merlin Olsen
Mind
Few
Able
Crossed
Never
Knew
Idea
Going
Being
After
Games
Star
Compete
I just wanted to be an athlete.
Merlin Olsen
Athlete
Just
Wanted
I probably played hurt a lot more times than I should have.
Merlin Olsen
Hurt
More
Lot
Times
Than
Should
Played
I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.
Merlin Olsen
Strength
Natural
Thought
Example
Important
Mine
Minimum
Would
Physical
Physical Strength
More
Lift
Weights
Always
Were
Quickness
Much
Should
Agility
Captain
Set
Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.
Merlin Olsen
Me
Exciting
Most
Bowl
Make
Years
Pro
The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.
Merlin Olsen
Me
First
Pool
Back
Out
Days
First One
Because
Within
Yards
Wall
After
Turn
Cut
Coach
Flip
Last
Two
Basketball
Jogging is my idea of nothing to do.
Merlin Olsen
Nothing
Jogging
Idea
I don't know where I got this size. Good nutrition, I guess.
Merlin Olsen
Good
Guess
Nutrition
Know
Got
Where
Size
At 285 pounds, I was extremely strong, and it was all usable strength that I could direct against opponents, not like that of a weightlifter, whose feats of power are all restricted.
Merlin Olsen
Strength
Strong
Power
Extremely
Direct
Restricted
Feats
Could
Pounds
Like
Opponents
Against
Usable
Whose
Economics comes easily to me, and we all seek out what we do well in life. I had in mind becoming a businessman. And I was good at logic and reasoning; figures were comfortable inside my head.
Merlin Olsen
Life
Good
Me
Mind
Economics
Easily
Out
Logic
Inside
Seek
Had
Head
Well
Comfortable
Becoming
Were
Figures
Reasoning
Businessman
Parenting is perhaps the most important job we have in our lives.
Merlin Olsen
Parenting
Job
Important
Our
Our Lives
Perhaps
Most
Important Job
The Most Important
Lives
I believe in dreams. Being a Merlin, I also believe in magic; the kind of magic that begins when someone who cares reaches out for a child.
Merlin Olsen
Dreams
Believe
Cares
Out
Kind
Magic
Someone
Also
Begins
Child
Being
Who
Who Cares
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