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"I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there."
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"When I went to college, we had a very good local following, but stations only televised two or three NCAA games a season. And when I went to Europe, once in a while we had a good crowd, but usually not."
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"Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College."
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"It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college."
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"In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare."
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"That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size."
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"Seriousness is stupidity sent to college."
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"When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did."
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"Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans."
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"There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college."
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"I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses."
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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."
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"I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school."
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"I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching."
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"I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there."
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"In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together."
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"My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators."
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"I always got my work done before playing."
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"One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition."
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"I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning."
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"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."
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