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Motivation Quote by Sue Wicks

"To be on television and have my nieces and nephews see me, and seeing them wear my shirt to the games and be proud, it's so sweet. Sometimes it feels like it's just a dream"

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Television turns a career into a family artifact, and Sue Wicks is naming that alchemy with disarming clarity. She is not talking about fame as a generic high. She is talking about visibility as proof: evidence her nieces and nephews can hold in their hands, pull over their heads, and wear into public. The shirt matters as much as the broadcast. One is mass media; the other is intimate ritual. Together they convert private work into a shared story.

The emotional center of the quote is legacy, but not the marble-statue kind. It is the smaller, more consequential legacy of being seen by the people whose opinions aren’t transactional. Athletes are endlessly evaluated by strangers; Wicks is moved by the gaze that carries zero brand interest and maximum personal history. Her pride is almost secondary to theirs, which flips the usual celebrity script. She’s not demanding admiration; she’s receiving belonging.

There’s also a quiet historical context humming underneath: for women athletes of Wicks’s era, television time wasn’t guaranteed. Visibility was intermittent, often treated like a novelty, and many careers happened in relative cultural silence. That’s why “it feels like it’s just a dream” lands as more than sentimentality. It signals disbelief at finally occupying a space the culture once withheld, and gratitude that the payoff isn’t just professional validation but a kid in the stands wearing your name like it’s normal.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Wicks, Sue. (2026, January 16). To be on television and have my nieces and nephews see me, and seeing them wear my shirt to the games and be proud, it's so sweet. Sometimes it feels like it's just a dream. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/to-be-on-television-and-have-my-nieces-and-131046/

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Wicks, Sue. "To be on television and have my nieces and nephews see me, and seeing them wear my shirt to the games and be proud, it's so sweet. Sometimes it feels like it's just a dream." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/to-be-on-television-and-have-my-nieces-and-131046/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"To be on television and have my nieces and nephews see me, and seeing them wear my shirt to the games and be proud, it's so sweet. Sometimes it feels like it's just a dream." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/to-be-on-television-and-have-my-nieces-and-131046/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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Sue Wicks (born November 26, 1966) is a Athlete from USA.

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