As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.

Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will

I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.

I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.

Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great in whatever they do off the track or off the court.

Get involved in everything you've ever dreamed of doing.

I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure.

Love is not about two people doing things similar. It is about two people doing things differently to cover one another's flaws, and making it a perfect whole.

I've never worked a day in my life. Don't get me wrong. I work at track. If you love what you do, it's not work.

... education is the second food a parent can give a child.

When you face tests and persecution don’t complain, but remember that everything works together for good for those who love God

World gives everything to those who don’t need it. (Matthew Effect). More you have it, more they give it to you

Writing is one of the easiest things: erasing is one of the hardest.

In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

You've never met a more flawed guy than me.

I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.

A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers.

I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.