Be Who You Are In Every Situation.

How Could You Look More Stupid Than To Be The Guy Accepting A Bronze Medal In Gold Shoes?

It Is Clearly Not The Journey For Everyone. People Succeed In As Many Ways As There Are People. Some Can Be Completely Fulfilled With Destinations That Are Much Closer To Home And More Comfortable. But If You Long To Keep Going, Then I Hope You Are Able To Follow My Lead To The Places I Have Gone. To Within A Whisper Of Your Own Personal Perfection. To Places That Are Sweeter Because You Worked So Hard To Arrive There. To Places At The Very Edge Of Your Dreams.

All My Life I Believed I Became An Athlete Through My Own Determination, But It's Impossible To Think That Being Descended From Slaves Hasn't Left An Imprint Through The Generations.

The Mind Is Absolutely Instrumental In Achieving Results, Even For Athletes. Sports Psychology Is A Very Small Part, But It's Extremely Important When You're Winning And Losing Races By Hundredths And Even Thousandths Of A Second.

As Strong As My Legs Are, It Is My Mind That Has Made Me A Champion.