Christian Coleman

“I think my first World Championships, I handled it well. My goal, just like any other meet, was to come out and win.”

“I am just a young black man living my dream, people are trying to smear my reputation.”

“I've just got to continue doing my job and more and more people will see the beauty in the sport that I see.”

“You have to have that dog-eat-dog kind of mentality. I think me playing football all my life and having that chip on my shoulder, not really getting the opportunities that I wanted, really carried over to track and field. It allowed me to use all that energy and put it in the direction of being the best track athlete that I could be.”

“You shoot as high as you can but if you don't end up there you can still end up accomplishing something great.”

“I have a lot of confidence in myself that I can be one of the best.”

“A lot of athletes take legal creatine or protein powders or just different pills and supplements to be able to recover faster. And I don't take anything, I work hard and that's just what it is, I don't take anything.”

“In perfect conditions, with a championship mindset and ready to peak, anything is possible.”

“Coming into the offseason, when I'm training, when things get hard, I know there's guys that are across the country, training and trying to be the best in the country and trying to be the best in the world. So that just motivates me to just keep going and keep working.”

“I've been blessed with a lot of talent, and if I just continue to work hard, then I think my name will be up there with some of the best.”

“The thing you're working so hard for are milliseconds. Saving a 10th of a second from 9.82 to 9.72 is huge. There are a lot of things I can fix from my technique standpoint and making sure I hold my form at the end of the race, to not slow down as much as I usually do.”

“This is something nobody can take away from me. I'm a world champion. That's a crazy feeling.”

“A lot of people don't realise how competitive college sprinting is.”

“I just go out there and try to compete to the best of my abilities.”

“My message to fans... I'm running clean.”