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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=582269" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>We Thank Them For The Memories</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Boxing had Muhammad Ali his greatness beyond dispute<br>And cricket had Don Bradman and baseball had Babe Ruth<br>And rock and roll had Elvis referred to as the king<br>And hurling had it's hero in Cork's own Christy Ring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gaelic football had Mick O Connell in his code best of all<br>And soccer had Brazil's great Pele the black prince of football<br>And Hollywood had Norma Jean alias Marilyn Monroe<br>A legendary beauty of the silver screen some forty years ago</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And athletics had Carl Lewis and Jesse Owens, Zatopek and Nurmi and Australia's best athlete<br>Herb Elliot the legendary miler who never tasted defeat<br>And tennis had Maureen Connolly the legendary Little Mo<br>Though she died young her fame still lives from all those years ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the swimming pool Dawn Fraser at three Olympics won sprint gold<br>And of the greatness of the winter Olympian Jean Claude Killy we've been told<br>And in basketball Michael Jordan is man of the century<br>And in rugby union David Campese made his own history.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have mentioned here some people who were revered and admired<br>They were role models for many and many by them were inspired<br>And add to them the name of Willie Shoemaker perhaps horse racing's greatest name<br>He rode thousands of winners on his great journey to fame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As legends in their chosen field one could mention many more<br>But father time takes care of all as we've often heard before<br>And though we thank them for the memories they too had their day<br>And for the up and coming they too had to make way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q>
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