I realized from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.

The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it.

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.

My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

I don't concentrate on things I can't do. I do what I can do.

No way did I ever think I was going to win the 100m.

My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m.

Tragic as it is when a child fails to develop physically or mentally, even more tragic is a Christian who fails to develop spiritually.

A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.

Come, enter into my imagination and see me as I truly am.

You live to play in the playoffs. It's like your heart is ripped out.

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

I'm just going to let people watch whatever little movie they think our lives are and go for it.

Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

Man's Place in Nature.