Edwin Moses

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

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.

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

Chicago is a fantastic city, and I can easily see the Olympics setting themselves right here in Chicago.

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.

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.

One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

I'm an engineer. I studied physics and engineering. In fact, in 1978 I started working as an aerospace engineer with General Dynamics. I used to test cruise missiles, space systems, I worked on the first generation of cruise missile.

I was always the guy kids came to for help.

Black athletes are always under more scrutiny.

In 1974 or 1975, if someone had told me I was going to be an Olympic champion, I would not have believed it. Even in 1976, I'd not have believed it.

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.