Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

My goal has always been to slow down as slowly as possible. It's as simple as that.

It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.

To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.

I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons.