Top 108 Quotes & Sayings by Justin Gatlin
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
My ankle is giving me a lot of problems.
I am fighting because of my innocence. I am fighting because I am a victim. I am not a doper.
I need to win back the hearts of the critics and the skeptics.
Usually in the off season, when you're done, you're just done. You eat hamburgers and pizza. You're partying and having a good time.
I allowed myself to get beat and I beat myself. That's the worst feeling in the world.
I come out to do what everyone else is trying to do, which is run, run fast and win.
But I don't want to sit back and be an audience to my own life.
I have to get ready to run anywhere under the sun.
As an athlete you have to think about yourself a lot. Think about your body, think about your mind, staying healthy, staying strong, your goals. So it's always about me, me, me, me.
What is it really going to amount to if I go out there and run against Usain when he is not at his best? That is not a great storyline. It is not a race I would like to go out and win.
Come back stronger and faster, that's what I plan to do.
Sometimes you can block out a lot of things because you're thinking about so much and you can distract yourself, but sometimes that distraction of being ADD can really set you back.
I'm lucky. My family and friends believe in me a lot.
Even if you watch the races I won - the indoor titles and the Olympics - I've never really been a superfast starter.
My son has asthma.
I've been to the top, to eat filet mignon, to have sweets, traveling around the world, having everything at your fingertips, to being embarrassed just to walk around in society.
I wanted to go out there and do what no one's ever done - and that's recapture some kind of glory.
I think that I am a serious threat to anybody out there who is trying to get that medal.
Just remember I am more than four years. I am more than two bans. I have done a lot before, and I have done a lot after that.
Everyone should give a second chance, but everyone is also entitled to their opinion.
Everything was cool when I came back running 10.09. Now that I'm running some of the fastest times in history, people are uncomfortable.
You have got to go through all of the opponents to get to the gold medal.
ADD sucks during training, but coming into finals I actually feel such an energy burst because when I step out on to the track, and I hear so much and I see so many people and my mind gets distracted, I kind of just feel at home actually.
I want Usain at his best, and I think he wants me at my best. That's what people want to see.
It's hard for me to dial in sometimes and be focussed, even though I know that I'm ready.
If I hadn't have become a runner I would definitely be a zoologist now.
I was never a steroid user at all, at least not knowingly.
Life is fun. And it's beautiful. But it's cold. Cutthroat. Nasty.
I find little flaws I have in practice, I work on those and go to the gym or I eat better.
There is no good runner or bad runner. We are just runners.
At the top, I was flying high. I didn't understand what it meant to be down and out.
If I am given an opportunity to fight for my freedom, then I am going to fight for it.
It's hard academically for an ADD sufferer - but, doing something they love, they can be the most focused person of all.
I'm not my sport, and I know I'm not going to run forever.
I've just got to pull myself together and hold my head up high.
Our sport is surrounded by nine seconds, and that's how long the attention span is for fans: if you can grasp those nine seconds, you're the man of the hour.
I'm 34 - you guys are like, 'oh, he can't be this fast at 34.' But 35, I plan on running even faster. That's my plan.
I tried many sports like football, baseball, and swimming. I even played saxophone and piano.
I've just remained open to growing. What I mean by that is, when you're an older athlete you can become set in your ways. Each year I try to break a bad habit.
Track, to me, was just a social gather where I left school early, ate pizza and watch the girls in shorts run. Then, I found I was abnormally fast and started to fall in love.
I really don't feel anything for the jaded fans if they don't feel anything for me. My fans who love me and care about me and support me - those are the ones I run for.
There are not going to be medals passed out to everybody in the world. It is going to be passed out to one person, the champion.
Track and field is a sport that's about 'What have you done for me lately?'
My expectations are to establish my dominance and kick butt. And I want to become a leader in the sport.
A lot of people over the last couple of seasons have fallen prey to the unstoppable force Usain Bolt brings to the table. And they just become subdued. That's not who I am. I'm not going to allow myself to become a subdued character.
For me it has always been an uphill battle because my mind's always racing a mile-a-minute.
I didn't look at age as being a reason to stop running or become slower.
Last time I checked, someone who takes medication for a disorder is not a doper.
In Brooklyn, the block wasn't very long or very wide, and not that many kids were out there, either. But when I got to Florida, there were a lot of kids on my block, young kids, older kids, and they could play outside until the sun went down and have fun.
Critics are just what they are. They're going to pick at the positivity of things.
I wanted to see what sports were like... I went out for the track team. And then I got a D on my report card and my mom pulled me off the track team; I was very upset.
In 2004 after winning my first Olympic gold medal I was featured in magazines as an eligible bachelor. Soon after I started receiving unique and odd fan mail, mainly from female prisoners. I've gotten prison art and love letters throughout the years.
I think of myself as a time-jumper.
I'm not just a runner. I'm not just a fast guy. I'm a fighter. I'm a survivor in life.
I want to go out there and show the world I can stretch my legs even more and exhibit more talent.
I find that as an athlete, we don't get to speak our mind often or share our hearts. So I chose motivational speaking to help make a difference.
All I really want to do is race and get into meets and run.
Every year, I laid out a strategy of what I was going to do, and I was very successful. In 2003, I wanted to take the world by storm, and I did that indoors. In 2004, I wanted to run fast; I did that. In 2005, I wanted to be dominant, and I did that as well.
You have people who are out there age 30-plus still competing on the grand stage. If I keep in shape, keep to a certain speed and turn it up when I need to, I think I will be able to get out there and run what I need to run.
Running with someone like Maurice Greene - competing shoulder to shoulder with him - and then running against Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell. And now the young guys, Christian Coleman, Noah Lyles. I'm the only guy that's crossed three generations of sprinters.
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