I overcame size with mechanics.

Stretching was a major part of my preparation.

The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track.

In particular, I studied German and Russian biomechanics.

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

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

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

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

I always got my work done before playing.

Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.

I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.

I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.

My father was an all-American football player.

I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning.

Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.

I overcame size with mechanics.

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

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.

The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.

The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat no Auto Tune electricity optional. It is the most direct bare bones of content. There is no interference between the head and heart.

I'm most comfortable on stage.

Your dream will challenge, prod and haunt you until you surrender to its call.

You have to be in love with yourself before anyone else can fall in love with you; to be happy with yourself.

No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?

Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.

And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way.

Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map.

I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.

I'm very excited to see the wonderful 2-D characters in Poptropica come to life in the form of 3-D toys. When I first held the characters in my hands, it felt like magic. I'm excited for kids to have the same feeling!

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don't go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

I'm really insecure about everything.

It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles.

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.

If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air because the air coming out of the exhaust would be cleaner than the air going into the engine intake.

In Cape Town, there's a drive from Cape Point to Camps Bay where the road is hewn out of the cliffs. It's just stunning, particularly if you do it as the sun is going down.

About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was there almost seven years. And then, somewhere in the mid-1990s, I ended up doing a TV series version of 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.'

I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.