"Maurice, being the baby, always said he was going to do it better [than his siblings]," Jackie Greene said. "We encouraged all the kids in whatever they decided to do, to give it their all. We didn't let them quit. Whatever they chose to do, they had to finish it."
Greene always had confidence. When he was ten he said he would someday be the world's fastest man. At the time Greene was not even the fastest runner on his Kansas City Chargers track team. "He was always confident and energetic," Ernest Greene recalled in USA Today. "I told him he had to be careful his talking didn't overshadow his performance."
Picks track
Greene won Kansas state titles in the 100-, 200-, and 400-meter races for three straight years (1991-93) at F. L. Schlagle High School in Kansas City, Kansas. He also played football and had an opportunity to play that sport at Hutchinson Junior College. Greene also had many opportunities to run track at the college level.
Ernest Greene and Hobson convinced Greene to pass up college and train privately in track. "I'm a guy who stresses education," Hobson explained in USA Today.
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