Quotes About Athletics

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

I'm 100% a sprinter... an old school one, not one of these new guys that can climb and sprint.

The next great decathlete is going to be a runner. I still feel that a Dan O'Brien, if he was a runner and not a sprinter, could have gone over 9,000 points.

As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter.

I always wanted to be a sprinter.

I'm a sprinter man. We don't jog; we don't walk. It's full-out. It's big engines. You don't take a car that has 600 horsepower for a cross-country drive.

As a sprinter, body weight was never an issue for me, not like the long distance riders who have to be so careful.

I've always been a sprinter, I'm muscular. If you put me next to the average sprinter, I would fit in a lot more. But against the Paralympic side, I always feel really big.

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

When I was in school, we would always have running races. I was good at it. Always sprinting. I can run long distance, too.

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

Bobsledding is like sprinting with NASCAR. You get to push these 400-pound sleds as fast as you can down a hill and hop in. How could you not enjoy that?

Women's sprinting is something the sport should appreciate more.

I like watching athletics and I like watching boxing. Probably the sprints, I like watching sprinting.

I love sprinting, but I hate long-distance running. Isn't that funny?

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

I'm glad women's sprinting is taking the course it is.

The main thing is confidence. I'm gaining more and more confidence to do whatever I want to do on the basketball court, whether it is shooting threes or sprinting to the rim and finishing or ball handling. I'm confident enough because I have worked on it that I am going to do the exact same things in the game.

Darren Campbell has helped me out a lot with my sprinting mechanics. These are things I've always wanted to do, but neglected as I am already fast and strong.

Mistakes happen. Not every one of my suspensions was purposeful or intentional. A lot of that stuff happens spur of the moment in the middle of a game.

That people believe I can be Olympic champ, it just spurs me on.

To be a contender in the Big Ten a squad must have a solid player at every position.

There is a lot of discrimination. Consider this: whenever a badminton squad is sent for an international meet, there are usually 10 boys and 3-4 girls. Why is it like this? Why can't we send an equal number of boys and girls?

It's good to have a fully-fit Gareth Bale involved in the squad.