“My salvation was a free gift. I didn’t have to work for it and it’s better than any gold medal that I’ve ever won.”

I can understand how evolution says, “don’t believe in God”, but I’ve never had this problem.

My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It’s so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

I don’t concentrate on things I can’t do. I do what I can do.

You’ve got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.

I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that’s what was good about it.

No way did I ever think I was going to win the 100m.

I realized from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

I feel that’s the only way to succeed – by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you’ve got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

Resolve and thou art free.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.