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Dog musher; four-time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
United States · 1954–2006
Susan Butcher was an American dog musher who won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race four times between 1986 and 1990, including three consecutive victories. She lived and trained in the Alaskan interior and was widely credited with transforming the training and care of racing sled dogs.
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One of my favorite lessons is best summed up in the words of an old Athabascan Indian who told me, “There are many hard things in life, but there is only one sad thing, and that is giving up.”
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 29 June 1991 source ↗
But whenever you do find something — maybe it’s not as passionate for you as dog mushing has been for me — but the fact that you have any interest, that is what you should go with.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 29 June 1991 source ↗
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