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The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
— Peggy Fleming
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker places love of the sport before the desire to please another person. Calling it yours makes participation a matter of personal commitment. The repeated insistence draws a clear boundary between pursuing an activity for oneself and doing it to satisfy someone else's expectations.
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