Quotes from Edwin Moses

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

Nobody can walk on a track and beat me unless they have an extraordinary day and I have a bad day, which I keep from happening.

Black athletes are always under more scrutiny.

Going back to the '70s and '80s I was one of the athletes who believed in true sport. I never took medical supplements, believed in diet and exercising. I always represent clean athletes.

Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.

In any competitive environment, whether you're in sales or marketing or whatever it is, you have to know your competition, understand who they are, do intelligent analysis on them and then you have to know yourself - who you are and what you're capable of doing.

I used to have tears in my eyes on the way to practice because I was so focused. For me, track and field was serious business. I didn't have any friends. I was very isolated and very focused.

Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

One of the things I'm most proud of is I went through my entire career drug-free.

My career proves that you can be on top for a long period of time by doing things that come naturally.

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

I stand with all the athletes who believe in doing things right. The ones who win and the ones who lose while knowing they have been cheated out of their positions. There are thousands if not tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of those kinds of athletes out there. We have to remember them.

My father was an all-American football player.

I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning.

I like to talk to people on the phone. I don't like to do critical stuff by text message.

I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

I used to be seriously incognito - without wanting to be. The effect of the magazines, television, billboards - they've changed my whole life in terms of having to deal with being a, quote, star.

Some days you really don't feel like racing and you have a great performance, some days you feel great and you have a mediocre performance.

I found ways to maintain my performance through working with professionals and doing things that other people weren't doing. Later in my career, I had a great physical therapist who kept me out on the track. We were doing innovative things like ice baths back in the early '80s when everyone else thought it was crazy.

I always got my work done before playing.

I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.