Michael Vick: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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Noting the reality that Vick is likely to do prison time, the Boys and Girls Club's Johnson told a reporter:

:"Now we explain that you can't depend on somebody else to take care of your responsibility...and sometimes money will get in the way of right and wrong."<ref name="presssquires" />

After his federal sentencing in December, 2007, local residents told a reporter for the Newport News ''Daily Press'':

:"I used to be so proud that he was from Newport News" He is not a role model anymore, she said. <ref> http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/newport_news/dp-news_vicksentencing_1209dec10,0,3516239.story?page=2 </ref>

Another youth leader in Vick's old neighborhood also was reflective:

:Vick did a lot of good things for his community that people aren't hearing about these days...But that doesn't change that he broke the law. He said "I'm not proud of what went down and what he said he's guilty of. Now, he'll have time to think about it." <ref> http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/newport_news/dp-news_vicksentencing_1209dec10,0,3516239.story?page=2 </ref>

After Vick apologized to the judge, his family and his children at his federal sentencing hearing on December 10, Judge Hudson stated:

:"I think you should have apologized also to the millions of young people who look up to you." <ref> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2007/12/11/ST2007121100072.html </ref>

==Career awards ==