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

By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.

What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.

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

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

I knew that whatever I set my mind to do. I could do.

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.