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.

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 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.

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 bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

I think if you can be a goal-setting person, it makes it easier to stay motivated.

I've been having problems with the right wing lately.

Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

A lot of players go into a restaurant and ask for a special table. I go and stand in line with the working people. It's very easy to get spoiled playing professional sports.

What are you so sad about? We're going to know him for the rest of our lives.

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head.

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.