I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

I want to be remembered as a person who felt there was no limitation to what the human body and mind can do and be the inspiration to lead people to do things they never hoped to do.

Channel your energy. Focus.

It's all about the journey, not the outcome.

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation, " intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.

He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

Being in charge sometimes means making people mad. Some days you have to overrule even the best advice, because you think it is not right.

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring.

By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again.

To dare is to do ... to fear is to fail.

Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous.

Happiness has a very short half-life.