Double gold means I'm king of the sprints. It shows I'm…

I want to be the king of sprints because I think I am.

— Asafa Powell

A lot of sprinters aren't football players. I'm a football player. That's the difference between me and a sprinter. My knowledge of the game.…

— Marquise Goodwin

Carl Lewis wasn't a great sprinter. He could only run fast for like 9 seconds.

— Serge Ibaka

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

— Jesse Owens

We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three…

— Daley Thompson

When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran…

— Emil Zatopek

The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his…

— Daniel H. Wilson

I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

— Marjane Satrapi

You learn to run like a sprinter, you'll be a great distance runner

— Alberto Salazar

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of…

— Jesse Owens

How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.…

— B. C. Forbes

You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all…

— Dan O'Brien

I was running sub-13 minutes for 5,000 when I was still coached by Alan Storey, and I won double gold at the Europeans in 2010.

— Mo Farah

Running with someone like Maurice Greene - competing shoulder to shoulder with him - and then running against Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell. And now…

— Justin Gatlin

I'm 34, and I'll be the oldest sprinter ever on a podium. I'm just happy to be here.

— Justin Gatlin