As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always wanted to be a sprinter.
When I hit New York in 1972, I thought I was a sprinter. I thought that I would star in a Broadway show and do a movie and win an Oscar by the time I was 25. It turned out that I'm a long distance runner.
I was an athlete when I was growing up.
When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race.
Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.
Ever since I was a little kid, I was competitive.
I was a sports kid.
I don't have a sprinter's body.
When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow.
When I was a little boy, I always wanted to run. I loved competing with my friends.
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