American - Athlete | July 23, 1974 -
I love running in Europe, man, running at places like Zurich and Crystal Palace where the crowd is so knowledgeable and appreciative.
Maurice Greene
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's a mental battle trying to come back from injuries and I don't feel like having that mental battle with myself.
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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.
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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.
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If you do not train hard you will never fulfill your potential.
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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.
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You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win.
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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.
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