Maurice Greene Quotations

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.

It is only those who believe in their ability who shine when it matters.

It's a mental battle trying to come back from injuries and I don't feel like having that mental battle with myself.

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.

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

If you do not train hard you will never fulfill your potential.

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.

Every race is not perfect; there are obviously a lot of things I can improve on at the end of the race.

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now.

If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.

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.

I love running in Europe, man, running at places like Zurich and Crystal Palace where the crowd is so knowledgeable and appreciative.

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

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.

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.

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

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

You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win.

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

I don't think about second or third place.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

We're going to meet a lot of times this season, and it's going to be a battle each and every time we step on a track. We're all competitors, and we're all going to put on a show.

I think the 3 medals are between four people ,

I said I would bring American sprinting back to the top and this was the start of achieving that aim.

Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must move faster than the lion or it will not survive. Every morning a lion wakes up and it knows it must move faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up, you better be moving.

This doesn't just go for American athletes, it goes for every athlete competing,

It's always good to be a part of the Kansas Relays. For me, to be a part of this years' relays gives me a lot of pleasure. A lot of years we always try to work on getting back here but it never seems to work out because of schedule conflicts. I am very happy to be here this year.

Do I feel bad for him? Yes. Because I was supposed to help him do that.

It's real simple to pass a stick, you just have to get people in there who know what they're doing and everything else,

I just came here for a rainy vacation, I guess, ... The U.S. never practices enough, but everything felt good, everything looked good. We just did it a little while ago. But we came out here and did not do as well as we thought.

I just came here for a rainy vacation I guess.

I'm very disappointed as I felt very good coming into the race.

The lion is the king of the jungle. The track is my jungle. And the word GOAT is here... it stands for greatest of all time.