Quotes from Christian Coleman

Usain Bolt, Tyson Gay, Justin Gatlin... to have my name up there with those types of guys is a blessing and a humbling feeling.

Me being a shorter guy, I am pretty quick out of the blocks and can get up to top speed maybe a little faster than some guys.

Anybody I have spoken to who has held a record says 'Records are meant to be broken.' They get excited when somebody has an opportunity to break one of their records and take the sport even further.

I don't have any close friends that are my competitors. I think that's just the nature of being a sprinter.

A lot of people don't realise how competitive college sprinting is.

A lot of people, when they are expected to do great things they fold, but you have got to find a way to navigate it.

It means a lot to notch my name in the sport and have my name among some of the greats.

I don't know anybody that is like super close friends but also competing for the same medal. That would be kinda odd.

At one time I was one of those guys looking at the guys on the top saying 'I want to be like that.'

I want to be looked at as one of the greatest sprinters of all-time.

I don't want to be anybody else. I want to be the best version of Christian Coleman that I can.