Michael Johnson Quotes
- Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief…
- As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.
- Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match…
- I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a…
- One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.
- I always wanted to be a sprinter.
- The only one who can beat me is me.
- Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.
- I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.
- They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.
- They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and…