“The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.”
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To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.