I think every genius person has a bit of insanity.

I'm always nervous. If I wasn't nervous, it would be weird. I get the same feeling at all the big races. It's part of the routine, and I accept it. It means I'm there and I'm ready.

I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

I'm really laid back but I still like to dress up sometimes.

I always want to give more than I gave yesterday.

I try to think about my goals. I think about my competitors-I know they're working hard, and if they are, I have to work hard too. I have to be one step ahead of them.

Everyone sees the glory moments, but they don't see what happens behind the scenes.

Every moment is not great and sometimes those are the moments in which you learn the most.

My speed is a gift from God, and I run for His glory. Whatever I do, it all comes from him.

Philippians 1:21 is very special to me because it helps to keep my life centered.

I'm just competitive. It doesn't matter what it is. I want to win.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

We've got a bad fire let's get out . . . We're burning up.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.