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

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

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

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

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions. It's the best-conditioned athlete, not the most talented, who generally wins when the going gets tough.

I think the two most important parts of any athlete's workouts are his leg workouts and his core training.

When you do something as long as I have, you obviously love the sport - although not everything about the sport.

In international football, chances don't come along very often.