“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.”
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To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
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.
I always separated sports and my personal life.
