I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.
Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.
No matter what the game was or how much older and stronger the other kids were, we were taught to give it everything we had until it was over. Never give less than one hundred percent.
You have to take things one day at a time.
What is poor? We had food. We dressed well. We didn't have a lot, but what we had fit, and it was always neat.
When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.
