Don't shoot for something unattainable - completely outside of your nature or opportunity.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.
I always wanted to be a sprinter.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.
You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
A bird, music and food -desert island items
When you're gone I can go running though the house screaming and no one will ever hear me.
All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.
As an athlete, I'd average four hours a day. It doesn't sound like a lot when some people say they're training for 10 hours, but theirs includes lunch, massage and breaks. My four hours was packed with work.
Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds.
On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.
I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.
As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.
I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.
Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.
