“I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.”

“And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.”