I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

Injuries made me a believer in cross-training.

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running.

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.