Carl Lewis Quotes about Sports

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

Life, Sports, Inspire

"BARCELONA: TRACK & FIELD; With Speed to Burn, U.S. Wins 3 Relays" by Michael Janofsky, www.nytimes.com. August 9, 1992.

Channel your energy. Focus.

Carl Lewis

Sports, Running, Focus

Carl Lewis, Jeffrey Marx (1992). “Inside track: my professional life in amateur track and field”, Fireside

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

Carl Lewis

Basketball, Sports, Running

Carl Lewis, Jeffrey Marx (1992). “Inside track: my professional life in amateur track and field”, Fireside

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

Carl Lewis

Sports, Teamwork, Kids

"Carl Lewis On Sportsmanship, Olympic Legacy". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 6, 2008.

'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.

Carl Lewis

Sports, Long, Mind

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

Carl Lewis

Sports, Want, Discrimination