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

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.

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.

In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism

Five percent of the people think

The most important thing of all was not the poverty of its ess

Some of the songs I wanted to be really full, [but] there's something to be said for just a voice and a guitar

To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet.

Pop stars should not eat.

I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.

Find your star and throw it up to heaven. You still have it, don't you?

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.