“I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.”

Today I woke up and I wonder: What’s happening into the sea?

I am always motivated. I am ambitious and I want to always improve.

Challenges will keep coming. And I’ll keep rising up to them.

I still remember when my teacher told me that football wouldn’t give me anything to eat.

I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well.

There are only two options: the view or ME.

If we can’t help our family, who are we going to help?

Breathe in, breathe out. Stay active.

Our health is the most important thing we have.

I know that people have different ways to see me but I’m used to it.

It’s time for reflection, time to analyse the ups and downs because critical thinking is the only way to improve.

Excellence on the field starts in the kitchen and the gym.

I know If I score we’re going to win the match.

Travel always brings back a new me.

Staying healthy and hygienic is important.

I’ve always taken things very seriously, since I was very young, and that’s reflected in my career.

I’m a high-performance athlete: I’m running, I’m sprinting, I’m sliding, I’m doing pretty much everything and the last thing I want to worry about is my chest. I want to just worry about playing the sport at the highest level that I can.

I’m an athlete and I’m black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I’m paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, ‘You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.’

I’m not used to crying. It’s a little difficult. All my life I’ve had to fight. It’s just another fight I’m going to have to learn how to win, that’s all. I’m just going to have to keep smiling.

I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn’t in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I’d learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

I have a big-picture outlook, I am willing to fall, and I understand it’s ok to fall, but I am going to get back up, I may take a step back, but in the end, I am going to take a giant leap forward.

Don’t walk through life just playing football. Don’t walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone’s life, that’s the ultimate vision, that’s the ultimate goal – bottom line.

Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life.

I wish to bring back the legacy that those athletes created on the pitch.