One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.

I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

How could you look more stupid than to be the guy accepting a bronze medal in gold shoes?

It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.