Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping.

He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.

Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.

I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.

I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals.