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"The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it."
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

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"I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability."

"You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed."

"My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won."

"Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth."

"My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m."

"My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way."
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