I was always more of an academic than a jock.

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.

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

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

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

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

I would have asked you to let down your hair" turning to regard her with a grin, his teeth a slash of white in his blackened face."But it is not quite long enough anymore.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

When you trust and have elevated personnel in each department then the sky really is the limit.

Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead.

We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?

We can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to.