103 Quotes by Carl Lewis

If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.