Carl Lewis

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

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.

I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.

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.

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.

Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.

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.

I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.

I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.

'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.

To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.

You can't live your life through your children.

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

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

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.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

I always separated sports and my personal life.

Seriously, some Americans just shouldn't leave the country.

When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.

I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

Our message of the day is service does not need a title.

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.