Quotes from Carl Lewis

When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.

When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

You can't live your life through your children.

I always separated sports and my personal life.

I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.

Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

Life is about timing.

Our message of the day is service does not need a title.

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to get to the top. But somehow I never thought it would happen to me.

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.

Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.

Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.

I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

I always separated sports and my personal life.