Justin Gatlin Quotes

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Justin Gatlin

Profession : Athlete

Birth : February 10, 1982

I find that as an athlete, we don't get to speak our mind often or share our hearts. So I chose motivational speaking to help make a difference.

Justin Gatlin

There are not going to be medals passed out to everybody in the world. It is going to be passed out to one person, the champion.

Justin Gatlin

The performance that we put out there as athletes is our heart, our heart.

Justin Gatlin

You never realize as an athlete there's going to be an end until the end comes.

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I know what it feels like to wake up and not be able to run. You don't feel whole.

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Being perceived as a villain gave me energy.

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I always need to find somewhere to sit, or something to lean on.

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Carl Lewis was definitely a role model.

Justin Gatlin

Once I found out that track and field was an organized sport, the era I followed more closely was that of Maurice Greene and Michael Johnson.

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I'm a big believer in the notion that to know where you are going, you have to know where everything has been.

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Track and field is definitely a science and each year as an athlete you try to develop and become stronger.

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I needed a break from track, the media and the world. I wanted to just be me.

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The world knows that I'm capable of running fast when I need to.

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I was jogging in the grass while on a warm-up and there was a sprinkler hole. I rolled my ankle, and it was really bad.

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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.

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It's an Olympic year, man, and crazy stuff always happens in an Olympic year.

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That's just the mystery in the air of the Olympics. It's full of dreams, and sometimes dreams don't come true.

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At the end of the day, when you command a certain power in track and field, you sometimes you have to exercise it.

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No one has to talk disrespectful to anybody. We're just here to run.

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When I get up out of bed, I've got to be Justin Gatlin, and I've got to be Justin Gatlin 100 percent.

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