No one runs fast without an extreme amount of training. Like today, you see kids walking around dribbling a basketball. I had a bag with track shoes in it, and I used to go to the track every day.

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.

Another benefit of going to Cornell is that 90 percent of your friends are doctors.

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

But it is never over; nothing ends until we want it to. Look, in shattered midnights, On black ice under silver trees, We are still dancing, dancing.

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

I wanted to know everything about the blues. I think it constantly changes for me.

I wanted to get an angel wings tatooed on my back, as a guardian thing.

If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.

You can't be emotional if you're trying to be a businesswoman.

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.