I wasnt born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.

I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.

When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.

I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this.

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.

The track is fast and I appreciate anything is possible.

When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.

I love London, I love the British people.

I work twice as hard as everybody else.

One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.

Celebrity is intoxicating.

I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.

The use of the internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed...This is a different world.

If you want to be happy, you have to be happy on purpose. When you wake up, you can't just wait to see what kind of day you'll have. You have to decide what kind of day you'll have.

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.

Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

I don't suppose I would describe myself as a showman.