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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

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Carl Lewis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: July 1
Athletics Competitor
Long Jumper
Poet
Sprinter
Track And Field Athlete
Birmingham
Alabama
Frederick Carlton Carl Lewis
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Focusing
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Youth
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School
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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You can't live your life through your children.
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Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able.
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I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.
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I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job.
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Channel your energy. Focus.
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My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.
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An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.
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I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
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I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
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I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.
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I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
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Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
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My life isn't interesting! It's my mom. You need to write her life and put me in it. I'm a cameo in her life.
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When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
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