- Blocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Jock
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always more of an academic than a jock.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.
- Overcame
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- Nov 07, 2020
I overcame size with mechanics.
- Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stretching was a major part of my preparation.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.
- Order
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning.
- Preparation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.
- Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an all-American football player.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always got my work done before playing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any competitive environment, whether you're in sales or marketing or whatever it is, you have to know your competition, understand who they are, do intelligent analysis on them and then you have to know yourself - who you are and what you're capable of doing.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
My career proves that you can be on top for a long period of time by doing things that come naturally.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always saw hurdles as a form of art, because it's very individual. One technique that may produce a world record for one guy could be useless for another guy.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found ways to maintain my performance through working with professionals and doing things that other people weren't doing. Later in my career, I had a great physical therapist who kept me out on the track. We were doing innovative things like ice baths back in the early '80s when everyone else thought it was crazy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be seriously incognito - without wanting to be. The effect of the magazines, television, billboards - they've changed my whole life in terms of having to deal with being a, quote, star.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was black, studying physics and engineering. I was from a small school nobody ever heard of.
- Glasses
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- Nov 07, 2020
My eyes have been sensitive to light since the fifth grade. Without glasses I can't see the next hurdle.
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always the guy kids came to for help.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stand with all the athletes who believe in doing things right. The ones who win and the ones who lose while knowing they have been cheated out of their positions. There are thousands if not tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of those kinds of athletes out there. We have to remember them.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I'm most proud of is I went through my entire career drug-free.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1974 or 1975, if someone had told me I was going to be an Olympic champion, I would not have believed it. Even in 1976, I'd not have believed it.
- Hurdles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never considered myself as a favourite in any hurdles event. I never took anything for granted.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to have tears in my eyes on the way to practice because I was so focused. For me, track and field was serious business. I didn't have any friends. I was very isolated and very focused.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chicago is a fantastic city, and I can easily see the Olympics setting themselves right here in Chicago.
- Athletes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black athletes are always under more scrutiny.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody can walk on a track and beat me unless they have an extraordinary day and I have a bad day, which I keep from happening.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some days you really don't feel like racing and you have a great performance, some days you feel great and you have a mediocre performance.
- First Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an engineer. I studied physics and engineering. In fact, in 1978 I started working as an aerospace engineer with General Dynamics. I used to test cruise missiles, space systems, I worked on the first generation of cruise missile.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started running there were no computers. There was no such thing as a laptop.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020