I love London, I love the British people.

I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.

I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.

When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.

I wasnt born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this.

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.

The track is fast and I appreciate anything is possible.

When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.

I work twice as hard as everybody else.

One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.

I stopped writing in the obvious. I wrote how I saw it and if they don’t understand it, that’s fine.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

I'm excited by any food that's prepared by someone who's proud of what they're doing, who puts a personal imprint on food.

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue?

Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City

Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.

You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

(For songwriters) Development of your facility as a musician is also important.

In Tibetan, we say people who have good windhorse have the sense they can accomplish what they want to do.