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.

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

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.

I believe in me more than anything in this world.

I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.