You don't have to be great at one thing. You can be good at many things and still be the best.
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Born in Plainfield
Born in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1933, Milt Campbell won the Olympic decathlon gold medal at the 1956 Melbourne Games. At seventeen, he had already won silver in the decathlon at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. A supremely versatile athlete who also played in the NFL, he later devoted himself to education and youth development as a motivational speaker.
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