Michael Johnson

"They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down. "

Michael Johnson

"I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people. "

Michael Johnson

"They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody. "

Michael Johnson

"The only one who can beat me is me. "

Michael Johnson

"Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best."

Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed, Rocky

"Stay in school and use your brain. Be a doctor, be a lawyer, carry a leather briefcase. Forget about sports as a profession. Sports make ya grunt and smell. See, be a thinker, not a stinker. "

Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. "