Jesse Owens Quotes

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

I would love to have a race against Usain Bolt one day! It would certainly be a good challenge for me.

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.

Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

I ran track, and I was really good at it. I was really fast.

Running is just a game to me.

I would put LeBron on a track.

If I am on the pitch there is a lot of energy in my body.

What I have to show, I show on the track.

You need to be sharp the whole race, and eventually you start getting mentally tired and make little mistakes over and over.

Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.

Coming into tonight, I knew it was going to be a great race, ... In the 400, Laszlo put up a 4:10.1 earlier in the year, and so you expect him to put up a good time in (the 200). I knew Ryan was going to be fast coming off his short course season, and he's improved a lot since Athens, so I just wanted to go out there and relax a bit and go out there and do what I had to do.

I'm a speed skater. That's who I am, in my heart.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run.

I was happy to ski and play a lot of ice hockey. But I've come back because I was - and am - a racing driver. This is what I do.

I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.

I started running track when I was 13 years old, as a freshman in high school. I ran the 400 meters, which is a very tough race and a full sprint.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.

My cousin Simon Bor, the champion of Los Angeles, convinced me to concentrate on running.

We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.

Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.