I'm a competitor.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.

Always educate yourself.

I think that every single person should play sports.

I'm a competitor.

A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.

Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.

I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's totally different from what I had been doing but I find it challenging and fun. To be honest, I really don't miss the track. I pretty well accomplished what I set out to do and it was time to move on.

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.

I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.

I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe.

I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games.

I'm Jamaican, man. I'm Jamaican first. You gotta understand that's where I'm from. That's home. That you can never take away from me. I'm a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.

In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming back in the next race. I'm always ready for the next race.

You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.

Follow your passion be prepared to work hard and sacrifice and above all dont let anyone limit your dreams.

I am a very private person. I still get shy at times.

I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.

We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on.

I am trained, and I did do 'The Nutcracker' in its right form, but at the time, they told me I was black and I'd never be in 'Swan Lake.' I went through all those prejudices in the ballet community, and I still emerged wonderfully trained and found my way to Alvin Ailey where there were familiar faces.

Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there reluctant to take either way knowing the wrong choice will mean the end and knowing theres so much worth saving.

My mom broke the mold. She put my brother and I first, always, and worked her fingers to the bone trying to provide for us. She taught us right from wrong and gave us very strong morals and values and belief in family, things that have stayed with me.

It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future.

A thug only understands you when you speak his language

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

Meeting my wife changed everything; it really, in the long run, made me a much better artist, a much better songwriter, a much better maker of albums.

I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad, and there will be bad.

For me, the very last great strip is 'Peanuts.' After 'Peanuts,' there are a very few strips that I enjoyed for different reasons, but I don't think they were great. I don't think anything's come along since Charles Schulz - and I mean since 1950 - that I think rises above the professional or the eccentric into that realm of greatness.

Marrying you was the best decision I made in my entire life, thank you my beloved husband for the immense love you have for me. I love you.

Selling Atari when I did - I think that's my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten back heavily into the games business in the late Eighties. But I was operating under this theory at the time that the way to have an interesting life was to reinvent yourself every five or six years.

Impatience kills quickly.

We all know that looks matter. What most of us don't understand is just how much looks matter and how difficult it is for us to ignore a person's appearance when making a social judgment.

All mankind love a lover.

The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.

Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.