Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

I think that every single person should play sports.

Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.

I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.

Always educate yourself.

Im Jamaican, man. Im Jamaican first. You gotta understand thats where Im from. Thats home. That you can never take away from me. Im a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.

I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games.

A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.

You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.

In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming back in the next race. I'm always ready for the next race.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

Harry had worked his way through the American Dream and come to the conclusion that is was composed of a good lunch and a deep red wine that could soar.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

Hillary Clinton is not a winner.

Life is what you do while you're waiting to die... Life is how the time goes by

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

From day one, my idea was always to use the gallery as this animated place to discover culture in a much bigger way.