7 Quotes by Joanna Hayes

My start was pretty bad. After I false-started, I had to sit and hold. My speed is coming. It was a pretty decent time.

They always come up to me and say, 'I want those shoes, can I have yours?'

Once we're on that track, it's one lane per person and every person is running for themselves. When we get there I'll focus on me, she'll focus on her and hopefully we'll go 1-2 and bring some medals home for the U.S.

It was not meant for me to be the world champion. If I was going to get beat, I was going to beat on the ground, and that's what happened - I got beat on the ground. I'm either the world champion, or I'm nothing, and I'm nothing. This will be all over, and I will move on.

I'm not really an indoor runner, being from the West Coast. But indoors is fun and it's a great way to work on your starts. If you get a bad start indoors, you can kiss a win good-bye.

I figure as long as it's not just raining in my lane, then all eight women will have to go through the same thing,

The indoor season is fun and a good way for us to work on our starts. The thing about the 60 is that if you don't have a good start, you're done.