Don't shoot for something unattainable - completely outside of your nature or opportunity.

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

I've had to learn that not everybody does things my way. But I do expect the absolute best of everyone around me, and I'm disappointed when people don't expect that of themselves.

You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.