“All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.”

“I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness.”

“I was raised to face any challenge.”

“The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.”

“All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.”

“I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.”

“It was all in His hands now - as it had always been.”