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By The Time I Was 12 I Was Challenging Every Boy In Our Neighborhood At Running, Jumping, Everything.

My Mother Taught Me Very Early To Believe I Could Achieve Any Accomplishment I Wanted To. The First Was To Walk Without Braces.

I Don't Consciously Try To Be A Role Model, So I Don't Know If I Am Or Not. That's For Other People To Decide.

What Do You Do After You Are World-famous And Nineteen Or Twenty And You Have Sat With Prime Ministers, Kings And Queens, The Pope? Do You Go Back Home And Take A Job? What Do You Do To Keep Your Sanity? You Come Back To The Real World.

It Doesn't Matter What You're Trying To Accomplish. It's All A Matter Of Discipline. I Was Determined To Discover What Life Held For Me Beyond The Inner-city Streets.