Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
You know, I love wearing heels. I wish I could wear them all the time, but, you know, my sport doesn't really permit it.
And as long as I'm passionate about the sport, I'm able to do that and I'm happy, then I would love to do another Olympics. I'm just going to see how I'm feeling.
I feel like my name completely does not belong on that list [of great athlets], but I'm completely grateful for everything that they [Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Florence Griffith-Joyner and even Wilma Rudolph] have done.
I know that they [Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Florence Griffith-Joyner and even Wilma Rudolph] have paved the way and they have been a source of inspiration.
There was a race that I was running in Mexico City and I was the only high school athlete running against grown women. It was a professional race, but I ended up winning. That was kind of a turning point for me where I felt like, "Okay, I'm pretty good at this and there's a possibility for this to be a career for me. " That was a defining moment for me.
I'm passionate about my sport and grateful that I get to do it for a living.
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
In Cuba they don't celebrate Halloween but my favorite moments have been trick-or-treating with my kids here in the U. S. : they really enjoy it.
Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.