Carl Lewis People Quotations

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.

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.

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

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

I like the pressure of having to perform so people will come to me.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to get to the top. But somehow I never thought it would happen to me.

I want to be remembered as a person who felt there was no limitation to what the human body and mind can do and be the inspiration to lead people to do things they never hoped to do.

When you're a part of something that people want you in ... that's what makes it special.

Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.