| 21. | It happened back in junior high school when they were put on a pedestal and given all this special star treatment,
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| 22. | "Despite his wartime heroism, he wasn't a distant figure you put on a pedestal and worshipped.
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| 23. | It's just how do you deal with the criticism, how you deal with being put on a pedestal.
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| 24. | "It's really hard to go after someone that you put on a pedestal so high,"
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| 25. | To be " put on a pedestal before your clay was dry was to invite disaster, " he wrote.
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| 26. | "I realized that a lot of athletes are put on a pedestal at an early age, " he said.
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| 27. | "This thing I had put on a pedestal, I realized it wasn't so hot for people like me.
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| 28. | And the blessing of never being put on a pedestal is that you can't fall _ or be pushed _ off.
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| 29. | If we had won a champ-ionship, if we had ever won a Stanley Cup, he would have been put on a pedestal.
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| 30. | "I didn't come here with the ambition of being put on a pedestal with people like Rockne and Leahy and Parseghian,"
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