More From Carl Lewis
- "I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing – he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous – any athlete who tells you they’re not nervous isn’t telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be."
- "There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete."
- "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."
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- "I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it’s fundamentally a form of entertainment."― Gregg Easterbrook
- "I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to."― William Landay
- "I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop."― John Legend