People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.

We'd get into these little towns and tell 'em to get out the fastest guy in town and Jesse Owens would spot him ten yards and beat him.

It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a …

Very early on, I determined not to let other people's lack of imagination define my life.

Do what you want to do, And go where you're going to. Think for yourself 'Cause I won't be there with you.

We're all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night, aren't we honey?