If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

I want to be remembered as a person who felt there was no limitation to what the human body and mind can do and be the inspiration to lead people to do things they never hoped to do.

Channel your energy. Focus.

It's all about the journey, not the outcome.

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

It's way too easy to get used to losing, it does something small to you.

People forget history nowadays, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one had lived.

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Donald Trump appalls me. I won't be shy about that.

You can lose your weight, but you can't lose your personality. And people's personalities don't change.

You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.

People never talked about my music. They just counted how many knickers were on stage.

Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali.

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.