A biography for Maurice Greenehasn’t been written yet.
“Everyone is coming after me now. Fine, let them keep on coming. I'm the fastest man in the world, no doubt.”
“In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.”
“If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.”