I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

Our message of the day is service does not need a title.

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

I don't think I will stop learning about football. There are certain parts we will never understand, like what happens in the brain of a player or makes a team fear.

What kind of pupil was I? Well, I was a swot, but I was allowed to be without any ill effects by my contemporaries because I was excused from games due to my asthma. So being a swot was something to compensate for not being to play football.

I used to go to some Harvard parties with my athlete friends, and they would introduce me as 'Winona, the Indian activist.' It made me uncomfortable. I felt like a novelty.

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.