I overcame size with mechanics.

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.

The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting.  Perhaps we're asking for something good when God's will is that we be given something great.

I can't let the killing go on. No more death, not because of me. This is the only way. You and I both know it. Eio.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.

What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.

Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

I would say that the emotional content of the film [Swiss Army Man] took me by surprise, and sometimes I would probably want to capture the unique tone of it.

When I am on my board, I always have my ID, ChapStick and maybe a $20 bill, because you never know when you'll need to buy a water or something.

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

Trying and acheiving are two different things.