Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

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.

After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?

Hope is a trust in a Supreme.

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.

Lord, help us to recognize you in the sick, poor and suffering.

Computers are no more able to create information than iPods are capable of creating music.