It wasn’t long before that training was put into practice, while Amr was sitting in the passenger seat of his friend’s car. And then I wasn't supposed to look at the police officer.
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“When my dad taught me how to drive, he said if we got pulled over that I had to put my hands on the steering wheel. I just thought, I'm going to do this no matter what.” - Omar Amr to Olympic ChannelĪs well as working hard to overcome prejudice, Amr’s parents realised that their children would also have to be street-wise. “Despite everyone else's best efforts to keep me down. So it was always in my heart and I looked at it as a goal from the age of six. “I loved playing water polo and every four years my father would get us together to watch the Olympics. They instilled this work ethic in my sisters and myself, so we just were very goal driven, worked hard and just battled. My mum worked 14 hour days sewing and my father worked at gas stations in order to put himself through school. “My parents came from Egypt after the (1952) revolution.
The future water polo star decided not to succumb to these derogatory voices and, despite starting to believe some of the hate being cast in his direction, stayed true to the principles his parents taught him.Īmr’s parents knew what it felt like to be an outcast in the country of your birth, and they wanted to teach their children to succeed in life despite these barriers.
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