Political Quotes

“last week, one of Alabama's outstanding citizens and great success stories came to Washington in his effort to give something back to his country. Richard Scrushy is founder, chairman, and CEO of Healthsouth Corp., the Nation's largest provider of medical rehabilitation and sports medicine. He is also founder of the Healthsouth Sports Medicine Council, a nonprofit organization whose goal is to educate young athletes and help them become champions--not only in sports, but in every-day life. The Sports Medicine Council is made up of top professional athletes and the Nation's leading sports medicine physicians and orthopaedic surgeons. The group unites sports celebrities who know the importance of good attitude, team spirit, and competitiveness, with physicians who have studied how the human body works, how to make it strong, and how to keep it well. Under Richard Scrushy's direction, this group has crafted a program and message that ultimately will reach hundreds of thousands of school children between the ages of 8 and 18 in cities across the United States. It will teach kids the importance of receiving an education, staying away from drugs, and practicing good sportsmanship on and off the field. Last week in Washington, the Sports Medicine Council's message reached nearly 14,000 kids through a series of field trips to Sports Medicine Council shows.”