Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.

There is something that can happen to every athlete and every human being; the instinct to slack off, to give in to pain, to give less than your best; the instinct to hope you can win through luck or through your opponent not doing his best, instead of going to the limit and past your limit where victory is always found. Defeating those negative instincts that are out to defeat us, is the difference between winning and losing - and we all face that battle every day.

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

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

One chance is all you need.

In the space of less than seven days, I attended a track meet in Boston, flew from there to Bowling Green for the National Jaycees, then to Rochester for the blind, Buffalo for another track meet, New York to shoot a film called The Black Athlete, Miami for Ford Motor Company, back up to New York for 45 minutes to deliver a speech, then into L. A. for another the same night.