But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.

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 can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.

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

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

I believe in me more than anything in this world.

I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.