“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 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 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.

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.

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

Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature’s services in a world of close to seven billion people.

If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we’re running out of time.

If I were you I would face my clothes, to make sure that no one runs off with them!

Though we love to think that we are civilized & developed than that of people lived centuries ago.

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin.

Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, “Mamma, mamma.

Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.

Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?