I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

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.

Without Scripture, our words would be without meaning!

Everything is a test.Either you win or lose, either you commit yourself or not, it's all up to you.

An unfaithful wife is like a cloth in an open marketplace.

Joy is overwhelming fun - fun so big that it overflows your mind, heart, body - as if all of life and love were spilling into you and you were spilling out.

God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God's sufficient Word.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible

The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth.

I would like to think that Im more different from my character than I am.