Maurice Greene Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.”

“I've had bad jobs. Now I have a good one. I'm thankful.”

“In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.”

“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.”

“My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that.”

“Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it.”

“Everyone is coming after me now. Fine, let them keep on coming. I'm the fastest man in the world, no doubt.”

“I don't think about second or third place.”