We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.

We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.