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.

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

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

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

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.

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