We'd all really like to be on a varsity cycling team, but even with that type of success, the school hasn't been interested.

People are usually either really serious or they decide to pull out. The rest of us give up every weekend from early February until late April spending every weekend racing at a different college. It's hard to get out of bed sometimes.

Every now and then we'll do grass rides where we work on cornering skills. We hit the corners hard and fast, and since you're on grass, nine out of ten times you'll go down. You learn how to tumble and how to prepare for a fall.

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

Ellington never graduated from high school, so when you speak about his success as a musician, his success as a businessman, his success as an organizer, the city was his tutor.

He's had a lot of success as a young wrestler and coming in to the high school situation you don't know how a freshman is going to react to it.