Quotes from Justin Gatlin

My expectations are to establish my dominance and kick butt. And I want to become a leader in the sport.

All I really want to do is race and get into meets and run.

I think a lot of athletes when they get in their mid and late 30s, they focus more on kids, on family.

I find that as an athlete, we don't get to speak our mind often or share our hearts. So I chose motivational speaking to help make a difference.

Life is fun. And it's beautiful. But it's cold. Cutthroat. Nasty.

Everything was cool when I came back running 10.09. Now that I'm running some of the fastest times in history, people are uncomfortable.

I'm 34, and I'll be the oldest sprinter ever on a podium. I'm just happy to be here.

I look at my family and what they had to go through sitting in those stands and listen to their child be booed.

I never stop to think about my age really. I just listen to my body and it tells me if I can or can't.

As an athlete you have to think about yourself a lot. Think about your body, think about your mind, staying healthy, staying strong, your goals. So it's always about me, me, me, me.

Running with someone like Maurice Greene - competing shoulder to shoulder with him - and then running against Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell. And now the young guys, Christian Coleman, Noah Lyles. I'm the only guy that's crossed three generations of sprinters.

I'm a big believer in the notion that to know where you are going, you have to know where everything has been.

A lot of people over the last couple of seasons have fallen prey to the unstoppable force Usain Bolt brings to the table. And they just become subdued. That's not who I am. I'm not going to allow myself to become a subdued character.

For me it has always been an uphill battle because my mind's always racing a mile-a-minute.

I wanted to see what sports were like... I went out for the track team. And then I got a D on my report card and my mom pulled me off the track team; I was very upset.

People mistakenly believe that if you do nothing but train you can only get better. You've got to work hard, but the harder you work the harder you must rest and relax.

What is it really going to amount to if I go out there and run against Usain when he is not at his best? That is not a great storyline. It is not a race I would like to go out and win.

It's an Olympic year, man, and crazy stuff always happens in an Olympic year.

That's just the mystery in the air of the Olympics. It's full of dreams, and sometimes dreams don't come true.

Everyone should give a second chance, but everyone is also entitled to their opinion.

I was never a steroid user at all, at least not knowingly.

Every year, I laid out a strategy of what I was going to do, and I was very successful. In 2003, I wanted to take the world by storm, and I did that indoors. In 2004, I wanted to run fast; I did that. In 2005, I wanted to be dominant, and I did that as well.

I want to go out there and show the world I can stretch my legs even more and exhibit more talent.

You have got to go through all of the opponents to get to the gold medal.