“One chance is all you need.” Sometimes a stage is all you need. For Jesse Owens, that stage came in 1936, when he traveled to the heart of Nazi Germany as a testament to the human spirit. What did “Buckeye ...

“I feel like they want us to dress a certain way. They’re targeting guys who dress like me, guys who dress hip-hop. Just because you put on a tuxedo doesn’t mean he’s a good guy.” –Allen Iverson Allen Iverson wasn’t ...

"Gung fu is so extraordinary because it is nothing at all special. It is simply the direct expression of one’s feeling, with the minimum of lines and energy. Every movement is of itself without the artificiality with which we tend ...

“The Army can do anything it wants with me.” The years 1958-1960 were important in the life of Elvis Presley. Already a global sensation and hailed as the King of Rock & Roll, he entered the Army with unprecedented fanfare ...

“They were willing to do anything to stop me.” Wilt Chamberlain’s story reads like fiction, only it’s all true. A gap year between college and the pros with the famed Harlem Globetrotters? Check. Scoring 43 points and grabbing 28 rebounds ...

“Nobody says my ego is grand. I think it’s in proportion to me.” The game wasn’t ready for Wilt Chamberlain. Philly grown and in the zone, the visual of a towering 7-foot-1 center who could leap out of the gym ...

“I’ve mixed it up with the heavyweights. The big man/little man thing is overblown.” Wrestling’s great cruiserweight king never went in for statistics. Rey Mysterio stands 5-foot-6, yet the heart of the Lucha Libre runs fathoms deep. He flits and ...

“My mother thinks I am the best. And I am raised to believe what my mother tells me.” For 21 years, Diego Maradona made the impossible possible on the pitch. Want numbers? Maradona carried Argentina to four different World Cups. ...