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

When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.

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

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

I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

I believe in me more than anything in this world.