Quotes By Carl Lewis

Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

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

I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

I like the pressure of having to perform so people will come to me.

I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.

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

Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able.

I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.

Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created this list. You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.

I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.

You can't live your life through your children.

Life is about timing.

'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.

I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.

When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.

I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

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.

I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.

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