Michael Johnson Quotes

They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.

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

I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

The only one who can beat me is me.

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.

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.