"It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance."
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"A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind."
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"Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself."
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"Your problems pale in comparison with those of the millions of people in the world who do not have enough to eat."
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"The only thing you can never change is your values."
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"Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear."
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"I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission."
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"On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one."
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"When you're gone I can go running though the house screaming and no one will ever hear me."
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"I've had to learn that not everybody does things my way. But I do expect the absolute best of everyone around me, and I'm disappointed when people don't expect that of themselves."
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"Be who you are in every situation."
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"A bird, music and food -desert island items"
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"As an athlete, I'd average four hours a day. It doesn't sound like a lot when some people say they're training for 10 hours, but theirs includes lunch, massage and breaks. My four hours was packed with work."
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"You can make goals for family, relationships, anything."
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"Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us."
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"I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done."
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"As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity."
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"You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving."
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"Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds."
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"All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations."
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