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Michael Johnson Quotes

“Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best”

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

“The only one who can beat me is me.”

"That's what the Olympics is all about. Once you get into that final anything can happen"

"I always perform best at the big championships, the world championships, the Olympic Games

"The person I would be most afraid of to run the 200 is Floyd Herb, because of the unknown.

"I retired because I had achieved all my goals. If there had been anyone around who represented serious competition to me, I would have stuck around"

""Basketball and boxing are very different sports from athletics. In athletics you can't play if you're injured, like Foreman has done. If I had wanted to come back, I would have had to have done it before now. "