I have never been a killer. I'm not an aggressive personality and if I can remember any emotion I felt during a race it was fear. The greatest stimul….

I ran my first race the end of March, 1976. And less than four months later I was Olympic champion. But I had the background. It's not like I just ra….

What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life..

Just because I’m single and don’t date a lot, that doesn’t make me a lesbian..

While success has hardly come overnight for me, it always comes..

It takes no courage to say or do what's popular..

My only fear is the unknown..

Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive. Every human requ….

No matter what you're trying to do there will be noise in the market... Before the race starts, I'm already focused on the victory..

The disciplined are free..

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing..

I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists do, there's more s….

Sinatra asked me out..

There seemed a gulf impassable between them..

Life is about coming back and mastering how to come back..

Most things that are politically right are morally wrong.

In the beginning, everything was even money..

I take all of my music seriously and personally..

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race..

It's always about the music, never about anything else..

You take advantage of your position as a famous actor to meet women..