You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it.

The lion is the king of the jungle. The track is my jungle. And the word GOAT is here... it stands for greatest of all time.

I'm very disappointed as I felt very good coming into the race.

I just came here for a rainy vacation I guess.

I just came here for a rainy vacation, I guess, ... The U.S. never practices enough, but everything felt good, everything looked good. We just did it a little while ago. But we came out here and did not do as well as we thought.

It's real simple to pass a stick, you just have to get people in there who know what they're doing and everything else,

Do I feel bad for him? Yes. Because I was supposed to help him do that.

It's always good to be a part of the Kansas Relays. For me, to be a part of this years' relays gives me a lot of pleasure. A lot of years we always try to work on getting back here but it never seems to work out because of schedule conflicts. I am very happy to be here this year.

This doesn't just go for American athletes, it goes for every athlete competing,

Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must move faster than the lion or it will not survive. Every morning a lion wakes up and it knows it must move faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up, you better be moving.