I just want to give my best in London, I want to cross that line and see a personal best on the clock then I will see what position I am in.

I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.

I am trying to attend every training session and do all of my workouts.

I think about cars to try and distract myself. It's a good way to relax, take your mind off everything.

Sometimes I'm at home and I remember I'm supposed to do 100 push-ups and I don't.

I am still the fastest man on earth.

Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.

I want to be the king of sprints because I think I am.

I said to myself, if I was in the race, I know I would have won.

I can run sub-10 any time but I'm just not ready.

I am a bit different from the other sprinters because, I would say, I can run many different ways while the other guys they just came on and they can only run one way.

Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which is neither life nor science.

What’s the old saying? Ah, I remember now. ‘Curiosity flayed the cat alive, ripped it apart limb from limb, and listened to it scream before it killed it.’ That’s the one.

Atheism is not a matter of the mind; it is a matter of the heart.

Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

I do use the F word a lot, unfortunately.

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It’s in Afghanistan, it’s in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it’s in the United States.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.