We All Have Dreams. But

In The End, It's Extra Effort That Separates A Winner From Second Place. But Winning Takes A Lot More That That, Too. It Starts With Complete Command Of The Fundamentals. Then It Takes Desire, Determination, Discipline, And Self-sacrifice. And Finally, It Takes A Great Deal Of Love, Fairness And Respect For Your Fellow Man. Put All These Together, And Even If You Don't Win, How Can You Lose?

I Let My Feet Spend As Little Time On The Ground As Possible. From The Air, Fast Down, And From The Ground, Fast Up.

People Say That It Was Degrading For An Olympic Champion To Run Against A Horse, But What Was I Supposed To Do? I Had Four Gold Medals, But You Can't Eat Four Gold Medals. There Was No Television, No Big Advertising, No Endorsements Then. Not For A Black Man, Anyway.

We Used To Have A Lot Of Fun. We Never Had Any Problems. We Always Ate. The Fact That We Didn't Have Steak? Who Had Steak?

"she (minnie Ruth Solomon) Was Unusual Because Even Though I Knew Her Family Was As Poor As Ours, Nothing She Said Or Did Seemed Touched By That. Or By Prejudice. Or By Anything The World Said Or Did. It Was As If She Had Something Inside Her That Somehow Made All That Not Count. I Fell In Love With Her Some The First Time We Ever Talked, And A Little Bit More Every Time After That Until I Thought I Couldn't Love Her More Than I Did. And When I Felt That Way, I Asked Her To Marry Me . . . And She Said She Would."