Maybe he was the one who had tried too hard in that first post-collegiate meet. It was my first meet that I didn't wear a University of Arkansas uniform. I didn't have a coach there to help me. I felt flat, like I wasn't getting up in the air and getting down the runway fast enough. My coach wasn't there and there were a lot of things I just wasn't used to.
Money is everything now.
And when you throw money into the picture, it creates problems. But when you get out, if you don't do well, you don't get into meets. And if you don't get into meets, you don't eat. In the outside world, that memory of what you've done in track and field is really, really short. Well, not completely.