Outside of the MCG are statues of famous Australian athletes donated by Tattersalls and known as the Parade of Champions, including many Australian rules football and cricket legends.
They include:
- Ron Barassi (Australian rules football player)
- Dick Reynolds (Australian rules football player)
- Leigh Matthews (Australian rules football player)
- Haydn Bunton, Sr. (Australian rules football player)
- Don Bradman (cricket player)
- Keith Miller (cricket player)
- Bill Ponsford (cricket player)
- Dennis Lillee (cricket player)
- Shane Warne (cricket player)
- Betty Cuthbert (track and field)
- Shirley Strickland (track and field)
There is also a statue depicting the first game of Australian rules football and the nearby Punt Road Oval has a statue of Jack Dyer.
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Ron Barassi
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Leigh Matthews
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Dick Reynolds
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Don Bradman
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Dennis Lillee
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Famous quotes containing the words parade of, parade and/or champions:
“With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eyes is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.”
—Adam Smith (1723–1790)
“The thing that struck me forcefully was the feeling of great age about the place. Standing on that old parade ground, which is now a cricket field, I could feel the dead generations crowding me. Here was the oldest settlement of freedmen in the Western world, no doubt. Men who had thrown off the bands of slavery by their own courage and ingenuity. The courage and daring of the Maroons strike like a purple beam across the history of Jamaica.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)