Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.

Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

Stretching was a major part of my preparation.

I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.

I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.

One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

I was always more of an academic than a jock.

In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together.

I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.

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Being in integrity’ only means all your senses are just focusing on that task, in that moment!!!

My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything.

People get work done, not buildings, not staffs in a generic sense, and not plans, but people

People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.

It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about.

I was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley.

My mother converted, my mom converted to Judaism.