103 Quotes by Michael Johnson

As an athlete, I'd average four hours a day. It doesn't sound like a lot when some people say they're training for 10 hours, but theirs includes lunch, massage and breaks. My four hours was packed with work.

As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

I've had to learn that not everybody does things my way. But I do expect the absolute best of everyone around me, and I'm disappointed when people don't expect that of themselves.

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.

There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.

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

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.