In Cuba we use our champions to promote the sport.

Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support of the entire Cuban society, to carry my flag in whatever competition I was in, the Olympic Games, Pan-American Games.

We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions.

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete.

In Cuba we use our champions to promote the sport.

We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world.

I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner.

And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.

Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.

We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics careers are over.

I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k just to promote the sport.

I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.

We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes, and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics, I follow our athletes careers from start to finish, 100% all the way.

I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.

Be very strong, be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.

You never know the limit of a human being.

I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts there can be no more hurt only more love.

Believing takes practice.

I would like to especially acknowledge my home community of Calgary, and the people of central Alberta who made my dream of freedom a reality.

My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious.

What do you remember about Jason Robinson? His feet. Not how improved he was under a high ball or his kicking skills. Everyone remembers those feet. He could go round you in a phone box.

Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

With 'Interpreter,' I didn't know it was ever going to be a book, that they were going to be published. I was writing them in a vacuum for the most part. They were my apprentice work. Then the stories happened to become a book.

I consider myself a feminist because I believe women should have equal rights. Of course. It's just that the term 'feminism' conjures up other things for people.

It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when everything started happening quickly but I think that's always the way it is.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of mans desire to understand.

I never thought about being famous.

It is important to dress for success.

At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do.

There are no right of wrong answers in goal setting. What works for you.

If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

Stand-up, by far, is my favorite.

Purity is something that cannot be attained except by piling effort upon effort.

Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears, Becomes timeless night.

Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality.

Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.