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"My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet."
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"We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes, and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics, I follow our athletes careers from start to finish, 100% all the way."
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"As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day."
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"So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it."
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"We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics careers are over."
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"We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star."
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"I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner."
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"Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show."
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"If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out."
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"That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection."
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"Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros."
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"Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do."
People
"I always got my work done before playing."
Work
"In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together."
People
"My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators."
Family
"I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning."
Winning
"I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school."
School
"I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing."
Time
"I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship."
Medical
"I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching."
Athleticism
"I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there."
College
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