Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters.

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.

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.

It's easy to give advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.

You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.

The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists.

Reality is a sliding door.

Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent.