Edwin Moses famous quotes

05-21-2025

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

#Motivational #Athlete #Training
Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters.
-- Edwin Moses

#Children #Teenage #Pregnancy
I ran my first race the end of March, 1976. And less than four months later I was Olympic champion. But I had the background. It's not like I just ran one day and all of a sudden became a champion. It was a lot of work.
-- Edwin Moses

#Race #Champion #One Day
No one runs fast without an extreme amount of training. Like today, you see kids walking around dribbling a basketball. I had a bag with track shoes in it, and I used to go to the track every day.
-- Edwin Moses

#Basketball #Running #Kids
You have to have already convinced yourself that you are going to win no matter what other influences are.
-- Edwin Moses

#Winning #Matter #Influence
I don't really see the hurdles. I sense them like a memory.
-- Edwin Moses

#Confidence #Memories #Hurdle
I always got my work done before playing.
-- Edwin Moses

#Done
I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.
-- Edwin Moses

#School #Scholarship #Athletics
Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.
-- Edwin Moses

#People #Let It Go #Want
My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.
-- Edwin Moses

#Mother #Father #School
My father was an all-American football player.
-- Edwin Moses

#Football #Father #Player
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 life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track.
-- Edwin Moses

#Track #Important #Joints
I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.
-- Edwin Moses

#College #Track #Track And Field
In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together.
-- Edwin Moses

#Sports #Opportunity #People
One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.
-- Edwin Moses

#Competition #Beats #Competitors
Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.
-- Edwin Moses

#Athlete #Class #Parent
I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.
-- Edwin Moses

#Athlete #Mean
I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.
-- Edwin Moses

#School #College #Medical
I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.
-- Edwin Moses

#Used #Competing
Stretching was a major part of my preparation.
-- Edwin Moses

#Preparation #Stretching
I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.
-- Edwin Moses

#Preparation #Problem #Injury
I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning.
-- Edwin Moses

#Winning #Skills #Order
I overcame size with mechanics.
-- Edwin Moses

#Size #Mechanic
I was always more of an academic than a jock.
-- Edwin Moses

#Jocks #Academic

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