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.

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.

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.

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

I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

I don't look at myself as being famous. I look at myself as an athlete. If the money is there, I'd be happy, but I have to be happy within myself first.