I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.

Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will

I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.

I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.

Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great in whatever they do off the track or off the court.

Get involved in everything you've ever dreamed of doing.

Love is not about two people doing things similar. It is about two people doing things differently to cover one another's flaws, and making it a perfect whole.

I've never worked a day in my life. Don't get me wrong. I work at track. If you love what you do, it's not work.

You forget that sometimes people are out there to get you - they don't even have a reason.

If you reflect on death, you find the vanity of life.

People talk a lot but they rarely say anything.

You get up, you dress up, you show up. And usually have a pretty good time by the end of it.

The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.

Someone once told me that the '…Baby One More Time' video should be me as a superhero fighting a giant robot monster.

the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.

I'd defend myself. But I don't go around shoving people around; that's not me at all - that's for a cop. I'm not into that type of behavior at all.

The Secret: Law of Attraction

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.

I don't know if people have gotten ruder or if my tolerance level has declined.