President Obama’s:Former Seattle SuperSonics 'coach of NBA great and Mercer Island resident Bill Russell, and still regularly at Gold Mountain Golf Club, and St. Louis Cardinals' great Stan Musial was among those presented in the Medal of Freedom Award Wednesday at the White House.
Here is what Obama had to say about them during his speech:
Stan Musial's glow could come in blinding bursts, hitting five home runs in a doubleheader today and leads the league in singles, doubles, triples and RBIs over a season. Ali, who won three World Series, to be first ballot Hall of Fame, to be worthy of one of the greatest nicknames in sports - "One" - he was made to burn the filament in two decades.
Stan put their audience with humility. He retired with 17 entries - as he missed a season in his prime to serve his country in the Navy. He was the first player to make $ 100,000 - just ask for a pay cut when they do not perform up to his expectations. Stan is still, to this day, button icons, unblemished, beloved pillar of society, Mr. you want your children to emulate. "I hope I gave a [baseball] almost as much as I have gotten out of it," House wrote in his memoirs, to knock one another out of the park.
When Bill Russell was in junior high, he was cut from the basketball team. Turns out it got better after that. He led the University of San Francisco to two championships. A thirteen seasons in the Boston Celtics, he won the Cup 11:00, two, while also serving as a team - the first African American in history to believe that the location of major league sports teams. More than any athlete of his era, Bill Russell came to define the word "winner".
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