After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

I want to be remembered as a person who felt there was no limitation to what the human body and mind can do and be the inspiration to lead people to do things they never hoped to do.

Channel your energy. Focus.

It's all about the journey, not the outcome.

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

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.

Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

You made one mistake. You married me.

Obviously, you try not to repeat yourself so that forces you to re-evaluate what you're doing constantly [in Black Mirror].

To me probably the biggest disappointments, as far as a football career goes, is I feel like I didn't live up to my potential, and I didn't win a Super Bowl ring.

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

He governed as if he felt predestined to never die

Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.

Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.

How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.

Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.