Quotes from Justin Gatlin

I think that I am a serious threat to anybody out there who is trying to get that medal.

There are not going to be medals passed out to everybody in the world. It is going to be passed out to one person, the champion.

It's a showman's sport. I think the rivalry that I have with Usain and myself has turned it into a professional-wrestling feel.

Carl Lewis was definitely a role model.

There is no good runner or bad runner. We are just runners.

If I hadn't have become a runner I would definitely be a zoologist now.

ADD sucks during training, but coming into finals I actually feel such an energy burst because when I step out on to the track, and I hear so much and I see so many people and my mind gets distracted, I kind of just feel at home actually.

I was jogging in the grass while on a warm-up and there was a sprinkler hole. I rolled my ankle, and it was really bad.

It is simply not consistent with either my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.

I've just remained open to growing. What I mean by that is, when you're an older athlete you can become set in your ways. Each year I try to break a bad habit.

Usually in the off season, when you're done, you're just done. You eat hamburgers and pizza. You're partying and having a good time.

Track, to me, was just a social gather where I left school early, ate pizza and watch the girls in shorts run. Then, I found I was abnormally fast and started to fall in love.

At the end of the day, when you command a certain power in track and field, you sometimes you have to exercise it.

Our sport is surrounded by nine seconds, and that's how long the attention span is for fans: if you can grasp those nine seconds, you're the man of the hour.

I'm not just a runner. I'm not just a fast guy. I'm a fighter. I'm a survivor in life.

I tried many sports like football, baseball, and swimming. I even played saxophone and piano.

Critics are just what they are. They're going to pick at the positivity of things.

I know what it feels like to have a talent and not be able to use it for almost half a decade.

Usually everyone fast is young. But I don't let age define my ability and drive to be the best I can.

It's hard for me to dial in sometimes and be focussed, even though I know that I'm ready.

Last time I checked, someone who takes medication for a disorder is not a doper.

No one has to talk disrespectful to anybody. We're just here to run.

Sometimes you can block out a lot of things because you're thinking about so much and you can distract yourself, but sometimes that distraction of being ADD can really set you back.

I don't want to leave the sport saying I could have run faster. I just want to be tapped out, like I gave it my all.