Justin Gatlin

“As an athlete you have to think about yourself a lot. Think about your body, think about your mind, staying healthy, staying strong, your goals. So it's always about me, me, me, me.”

“My son has asthma.”

“You have got to go through all of the opponents to get to the gold medal.”

“I need to win back the hearts of the critics and the skeptics.”

“My ankle is giving me a lot of problems.”

“I wanted to go out there and do what no one's ever done - and that's recapture some kind of glory.”

“I've worked hard, all the way from the bottom when I had nothing.”

“Come back stronger and faster, that's what I plan to do.”

“Just remember I am more than four years. I am more than two bans. I have done a lot before, and I have done a lot after that.”

“I've been to the top, to eat filet mignon, to have sweets, traveling around the world, having everything at your fingertips, to being embarrassed just to walk around in society.”

“I feel like once you start to tell yourself that it's your last year, you kind of aren't as sharp and lose some attention, drive and hunger.”

“Once I was away from track and field, I was able to realize that life is something you really have to work on.”

“My expectations are to establish my dominance and kick butt. And I want to become a leader in the sport.”

“I find little flaws I have in practice, I work on those and go to the gym or I eat better.”

“Everything was cool when I came back running 10.09. Now that I'm running some of the fastest times in history, people are uncomfortable.”

“I'm lucky. My family and friends believe in me a lot.”

“I'm not my sport, and I know I'm not going to run forever.”

“There have been times in my career where I've been so dialed-in and focused, and I realized when people told me, 'Do you remember this?' And I'll be like, 'Oh, I don't,' because I was so focused on everything.”

“I am fighting because of my innocence. I am fighting because I am a victim. I am not a doper.”

“But I don't want to sit back and be an audience to my own life.”