It's a mental battle trying to come back from injuries and I don't feel like having that mental battle with myself. Maurice Greene More Quotes by Maurice Greene More Quotes From Maurice Greene It is only those who believe in their ability who shine when it matters. Maurice Greene matters shine ability believe Every race is not perfect; there are obviously a lot of things I can improve on at the end of the race. Maurice Greene end not-perfect i-can perfect Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it. Maurice Greene who capable winning world To be number one, you must train like you are number two. Maurice Greene like you train two Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with. Maurice Greene whatever control work weather I've had bad jobs. Now I have a good one. I'm thankful. Maurice Greene bad now good thankful Everyone is coming after me now. Fine, let them keep on coming. I'm the fastest man in the world, no doubt. Maurice Greene me man doubt world 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. Maurice Greene golf football sports way I love running in Europe, man, running at places like Zurich and Crystal Palace where the crowd is so knowledgeable and appreciative. Maurice Greene palace like man love You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do. Maurice Greene best you attitude people You have to know this: running a 100m race is an intense experience. You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win. Maurice Greene end win you experience Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record. Maurice Greene great me home world I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now. Maurice Greene you talent work attention The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection. Maurice Greene looking me perfection world 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. Maurice Greene why us look you I don't think about second or third place. Maurice Greene second about place think My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that. Maurice Greene place you positive life If you do not train hard you will never fulfill your potential. Maurice Greene your will never you When the gun fires you must concentrate for every second on the way to that finish line. You should know exactly how long it will take you to and think about every step of the race you are about to run. Maurice Greene step you gun long You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time. Maurice Greene you believe-in-yourself faith time
