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

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.

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.

I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.

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

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

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.