Explore Quotes by Carl Lewis

My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.

Some Americans just shouldnt leave the country.

I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job.

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.

I don't intend to stay around any longer than I feel I can be No. 1.

I always separated sports and my personal life.

I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.

I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created this list. You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.

An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.

Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.

Channel your energy. Focus.

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

It's all about the journey, not the outcome.

We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

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.