I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Every morning, just like in Alabama, I got up with the sun, ate my breakfast even before my mother and sisters and brothers, and went to school, winter, spring, and fall alike to run and jump and bend my body this way and that for Mr. Charles Riley.

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.