14 Quotes by Vonetta Flowers

When they tell him to do something he doesn't want to do, he'll reach up and take off his hearing aid.

I felt like I was thrown down a mountain in a trash can.

There are so many emotional stories in our lives that the cameras missed outside of the competition, which viewers never got to see. This online 'scrap book' gives us a chance to share the entire journey leading up to, and during the Games to really illustrate the ups and downs an athlete and their mom's experience along the road to becoming a U.S. Olympian.

Without that, the surgery would not have been possible.

Every time she did it, he looked for that. Of course, that made us feel really good.

We all want the best for the U.S.. We represent our country, not just ourselves. Obviously, we're happy to see them. If not us, then another U.S. team.

We had our one bad run. We said, 'no more bad runs.' We just want to have fun and do our best.

They got their passports when they were 5 months old.

It was different in 2002 because we were in the United States. It was our home track and we had been training on that track for years. But I think we've been having some excellent runs these last few days so I'm ready. I think we are going to do really well.