Edwin Moses Quotes
- Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.
- Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.
- I don't really see the hurdles. I sense them like a memory.
- I overcame size with mechanics.
- I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning.
- I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.
- Stretching was a major part of my preparation.
- I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.
- 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.
- I was always more of an academic than a jock.
- One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.
- In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together.
- I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.
- The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of…
- My father was an all-American football player.
- My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.
- Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.
- I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.
- Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters.