I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something.

We are stronger together than we are alone.

I wanted to be a professional drummer.

If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner.

Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.