I would be disappointed if I were remembered as a runner because I feelthat my contribution to the youth of America has far exceeded the woman who was the Olympic champion.

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

I believe in me more than anything in this world.

I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.

I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.