There are so many people afraid of a task. They get so overwhelmed by the obstacles in front of them that they shy away from reaching beyond a position of safety.

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.

There's always a puppet and a puppeteer in a relationship. Take your time to find out which one you are.

Nature is saturated with deity.

A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.

It's a very nice thing to have a baby.

A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.

Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.

For a pragmatist like me, the important issues concern the words we might deploy to achieve our purposes, rather than the language we actually use.

We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.