Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

I wanted to make an impact beyond running fast and jumping far.

There ain't no man can avoid being born average. But there ain't no man got to be common.