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 think that every single person should play sports.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

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.

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.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance

I’d like to have the chance to decide what my life will be like, I think that’s the best present anyone can get. The chance to decide what your life will be like.

I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money.

A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.

The things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out.

Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.

She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.

But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.

You can say the dirty words now, but there is no content - political satire is limited to small podiums and little soap boxes.

The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.