Carl Lewis

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

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously. ”

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

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 not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics. ”

I always separated sports and my personal life. ”