My father was an all-American football player.

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.

Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing.

Peace is not found in the sea.It is found when I dream of eternity.

Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can't help himself. You're talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, "He's puttin' that in his cash register!"

I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal.

Doing the right thing has power.

If you think you know it all, you are not listening.

Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.