Wallace Spearmon

thumb|Wallace Spearmon Wallace Spearmon Jr. (born December 24, 1984) is an American retired sprint athlete who specialized in the 200 meters. He is a two-time NCAA outdoor champion in the 200 m and won the silver medal in the event at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics. He has a personal best of 19.65 seconds for the distance, making him the fifteenth fastest 200 meter runner of all time, and he formerly held the indoor American record. Quotes Everything he did, I want to do better and I want to do what he didn’t do. It was a letdown and I felt that I was better than third place, I shoot to win and if I don’t win I have some work to do. It’s a simple fact since I have been young. I always want to win even if it’s a game of Scrabble. We just tried to stick together as a group, but it was pretty difficult being the baby of the group and kind of trying to motivate myself. It was of the most difficult decisions that I have made, it was not easy to concentrate. I didn’t need any new distractions, If it works, I’ll stick with it. If not, I am still young and have time to recover. It all starts in the fall; that carries me through the whole season. Right now, I am still trying to figure out the technique,I give a lot of respect to Jeremy (Wariner) and what all those guys and doing there. I didn’t have any goals but to win (the World Championships), You can’t run a PR every year so it wasn’t really a let down. It just means it is something special and to look forward to when you do PR. There’s a lot of guys and it’s deeper than the 100m, but I think to make the team,  I just need to stay motivated and do everything correctly. From eating right and dedicating myself to track to make it this year. Spearmon Looking to Father for Inspiration in 2008, January 02 2008 External links Category:1984 births Category:Living people Category:Track and field athletes Category:Sportspeople from the United States Category:African Americans Category:People from Chicago