21. It happened back in junior high school when they were put on a pedestal and given all this special star treatment, 22. "Despite his wartime heroism, he wasn't a distant figure you put on a pedestal and worshipped. 23. It's just how do you deal with the criticism, how you deal with being put on a pedestal . 24. "It's really hard to go after someone that you put on a pedestal so high," 25. To be " put on a pedestal before your clay was dry was to invite disaster, " he wrote. 26. "I realized that a lot of athletes are put on a pedestal at an early age, " he said. 27. "This thing I had put on a pedestal , I realized it wasn't so hot for people like me. 28. And the blessing of never being put on a pedestal is that you can't fall _ or be pushed _ off. 29. If we had won a champ-ionship, if we had ever won a Stanley Cup, he would have been put on a pedestal . 30. "I didn't come here with the ambition of being put on a pedestal with people like Rockne and Leahy and Parseghian,"
