No way did I ever think I was going to win the 100m.

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.

No way did I ever think I was going to win the 100m.

The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it.

My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m.

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it.

There's kind of a cool feel that happens every now and then. I guess that feel is the thing that makes the score its own score. But, I don't know exactly what that is. So, it's hard for me to answer that question.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

Trust is like a sticker, once removed, it does not sticky anymore as it did before.

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.

Let's restore sanity and fairness to the tax cut conversation. We simply cannot afford to hand over the bank vault to our nation's millionaires and billionaires while the middle class picks up spare change.

Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.

When you see someone on top, look away and don't try to bring him down, because he may someday help you reach the top.

In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America's largest source of trade surplus.

I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.

No one is born hating others.

In the mid-'60s, I quit school and wandered across the country, hitchhiked back and forth a few times, and ended up in hippie times, in the street in Toronto, in Yorkville.

It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.

There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.

San Francisco is one of my favorite cities on the planet.

I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.