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

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.

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.

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

If you have no anger inside your heart, you will have no enemy outside in the world.

When people show you who they are

Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.

Computing lets people express their creativity and unlock solutions, and code is computing's universal language. All young people, including girls, deserve to be fluent in the language of the future.

Keep costs low and spirits high, and the people of Southwest Airlines will keep LUV in the air.

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.