Life Doesn't Give You All

It All Goes So Fast, And Character Makes The Difference When It's Close

Joe Louis And I Were The First Modern National Sports Figures Who Were Black... But Neither Of Us Could Do National Advertising Because The South Wouldn't Buy It. That Was The Social Stigma We Lived Under.

I'd Noticed Him Watching Me For A Year Or So, Especially When We'd Play Games Where There Was Running Or Jumping.

I Always Loved Running.... It Was Something You Could Do By Yourself And Under Your Own Power.

Every Morning, Just Like In Alabama, I Got Up With The Sun, Ate My Breakfast Even Before My Mother And Sisters And Brothers, And Went To School, Winter, Spring, And Fall Alike To Run And Jump And Bend My Body This Way And That For Mr. Charles Riley.