When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

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

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.

When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.

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

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.