We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.

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.

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.

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.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

Ach, Rangers are alright, but they still haven’t invented blue grass.

As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

You dont have to live forever just live.

I write from my stomach.

My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.

There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.