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I've always encouraged young ones all the way through.
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I mean, I've been told many of them looked up to me,
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and wanted to emulate me as well.
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And they say to me, "How can you play like that?"
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and I just say "It just seemed to be a natural ability for me."
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I think also it was because I loved netball.
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I loved basketball as well, but my first love was always netball.
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On Christmas Day, I do remember, years and years ago,
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I was given a doll.
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This doll I received, I threw it down on the ground.
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Literally like I'm showing you here, I just threw it down.
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My mother was saying, "What are you doing, Anne?"
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I said, "I want a ball, I don't want a doll."
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I wanted to play, move around, you know,
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and I didn't want to speak.
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That wasn't part of what I wanted to do as a child.
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In the 1956 Olympic Games, I noticed
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a woman by the name of Dawn Fraser, and I thought,
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I just want to be like her, and she really inspired me.
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I think one of my proudest moments was receiving a medal
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for the Deaf Olympics, which was in 1985.
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I was so excited to finally be awarded a medal.
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When I was told that I was going to be receiving this award,
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I was totally overwhelmed. I cried.
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I even feel teary now thinking about it.
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What a wonderful thing to be recognised at this level.
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And hopefully other women will receive this medal as well in the future.
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