Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.

The basis of self-discipline: Don't allow the edges to blur.

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.

I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.

The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.

There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.