Maurice Greene Quotes

You’d like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.

You have to know this: running a 100m race is an intense experience. You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win.

You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time.

When the gun fires you must concentrate for every second on the way to that finish line. You should know exactly how long it will take you to and think about every step of the race you are about to run.

Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with.

To be number one, you must train like you are number two.