Justin Gatlin Quotations

We're just really, really close friends. If the situation were different we probably would be together, but we're just friends, and that's how we like to keep it right now. Hopefully things will turn out the best they can.

Leonard Scott ran a very good technical race, Sean Crawford came through easily, everybody's running really fast and times are pretty much equal in the first round. So everybody's going to have to come out and put their game on.

Most people would be debating in their heads what to do in a year like this. It is all about preparation and I am just looking at putting out superb times. All I have to do this year is focus on my race.

Maurice is one of the greatest competitors in the world. However this is a new era, the young guys are coming.

Mentally and physically I am the best sprinter.

My job was to come out here and get the 100 and 200 gold medals. That's what I did. The (relay) was icing on the cake. Obviously there's no icing now, but I feel sorry for the guys who came here with dreams to win a medal. ... They didn't get that chance.

Of course I wish Asafa had run, ... I think the world record would have been threatened if he was there, and I think I would have beaten him.

One thing we don't have that other countries have is discipline, ... You have egos that get in the way, people who want to run certain legs, or who feel they should be on the team when they haven't proven themselves to the point where they're reliable enough to get the stick around.

I am really pleased with the season this year. I feel I have established better credit to my name and feel I am more consistent. My hamstring was a little bit tight about 20 meters to the finishing line, but it was a good race, I think my performance was good, the competition was great.

I am satisfied with the race, especially the track and the local fans. Shanghai gives me a very good impression. I will come here again next year.

I'm a little bummed that we had a strong head wind like we did. I haven't run that slow in a long time.

I expect Maurice to be back there pushing me all the way next year,

If it is raining in Sheffield I think that will be very tough to get close to,

I would say it's going to be me,

I think it really stakes the claim that I'm the champion, ... I run like a champion. I show up big when it's time to show up big.

It is possible. I have the competitive spirit. I am working on my starts and bringing sound races.

I thought that the light wasn't as bright in art as it was in track and field.

I think we need to fix some things within the staff and the athletes, ... I think we should take a lesson from the French and the British who have basically gotten the stick around and got it around safely. That's all we need to do. That's all we had to do: get the stick around safely and we'd be in the finals. There's no way that we should not have been in the finals.

I think this really stakes a claim that I'm a champion, ... I'm a competitor. If it means winning by an inch or a mile, I'm there.

It is not a blow for me that Asafa Powell does not show up.

Really? So I did get some kind of record, huh? It's great to show how dominant I am this year, running fast times consistently and winning every race. I prayed before the season to be dominant, and it's all come together.

I will try for a new mark in the remaining races this season. If I don't get it this year, then it is definitely happening next year.

I think I'm in shock and awe more than anybody else right now.

I might go out there and grab a medal from these young boys running fast,

The 100m has always been my main focus in life but I'm now wanting to run more 200m, particularly next year. I think I have a lot to prove in the event.

I was probably the slowest starter in the whole race but it's the last race of the season and I knew I had to go out there and do it on the track.

I was probably in the most shock I have ever been in my life. I was speechless.

The Penn Relays is the only meet in the world where, when I walk into the stadium, I get chills.

Times are very important (this year) because there are no championships.

With a fast track, right conditions, and strong competition.

When you look at people like Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Maurice Greene, the key to their success was not world records - it was their dominance,

Double gold means I consider myself right now to be King of sprints,

Double gold. I think I've sealed my fate right now as the king of sprints.

The time would have been faster and the world record would have been threatened. But I still would have beaten him. If he's ready, bring it on, I'm the Olympic champion and the world champion.

I've been dreaming about this since I started racing. I've lived for this moment. it was a very great race, the competition was stellar.

It would be a great time to try for the 100m world record. I'm the world champion. Of course I want that world record.

It would be nice to grab first place in both events. If I run a great race tomorrow I can finish top of the 200 as well.

The second half of the race was mine.

Pre has always produced fast times and great races. I'm looking forward to running fast like I did there last year.

says the Olympic 100-meter gold medalist. ''If I go out and do great, it'll be, 'Well, Asafa wasn't there.' That's the first thing they'll say.

Rain, sleet, snow? It doesn't matter. I'm going to come out blazing .

It was really exciting as a college athlete watching the red, white and blue run the last day. Everybody comes on the last day to watch the professionals, whether it's raining or not.

It makes a great story for track and field. I have the Olympic gold, he has the world record. It's a duel for the times.

It's been a great season and I wanted to end on a high note.

It's great. I like the way it is now. You have to have room for error to make mistakes to be better next time around.

Don't bring ten athletes somewhere and then four or five of them are mad because they're not on the team, ... And then a lot of people are very bitter about it and they're happy to see us fail. It should be cut and dry. It should be these athletes are going to run, and if anything happens, we bring in another athlete.

It was a great season for me. I want to focus on quality races next year.

They were playing duck, duck, goose with the lanes. They couldn't find out who was in Lane 3 or Lane 7 or Lane 8, so they switched it around. Then the announcer called it with the wrong lanes, so they switched it around again. They did that about three times. But the audience was patient, we were patient and we put on a good show.

They have three rounds under their belts. I have about seven rounds under my belt right now. If I go out there competitive and run a great race, I think I can do it.

It was great. That's the biggest cheer I put out the whole time I've been here. Seeing her win the gold medal, she deserves it more than me.

I'm not just a 100 m person or a 200 m person. I have a lot more to offer. (People) have not seen that kind of talent since Carl Lewis and Leroy Burrell. I'm trying to bring that back.

I'm feeling great, I can't even be emotional, I can't believe it's happened.

In Helsinki I felt like a champion and I performed like a champion. I think the reason I was so dominant this year was that I was more mature.

I knew Tyson gets out very fast, and Wallace comes on strong at the end. I had to make sure I was patient throughout the whole race. I was pawning, playing chess with the guys.

I most definitely can get faster than the 9.88 from Helsinki with that bad weather.

I'm very tired after all the travelling in Europe. I wanted to put on one last 200 metres to show people it wasn't just a one-off.

I'm very tired after all the traveling in Europe. I wanted to put on one last 200 metres to show people it wasn't just a one-off.

I'm very pleased with my season this year. I think this season is even better than 2004,

I just thought it was a little nerves from the start; a lot of these guys have never raced in a stadium that big. Leonard stuck out his hand. Mardy held onto the stick tight, a little too tight. Leonard went to grab it and obviously had a good grip on it, and he was taking it out of Mardy's hand, and Mardy still wouldn't let go.

I am working on my start, once I have a good start, I think I can go to boundaries that no other man has been to.

I feel I established better credit to my name, being more consistent this year, running bigger races, and hopefully next year I can do the same thing, run quality races in fast times on fast tracks.

I feel a little sore, tired, like any person that runs fast.

I don't mind a target on my back,

I do not feel disappointed at all. I won both the 100 and 200 at the US trials and the worlds. It was a great season for me.

The first time I was in Icahn Stadium, I knew you could run sub-10 on that track. It's New York, hey. It's where I was born, where I was raised. There's not a lot of tracks I can call home, that have a home feel about them, and I think this can be one of those places for me.

I'm still dominant and that's what matters, ... But rain, snow, sleet, it doesn't matter. I'm going to go out and try and win a gold medal.

I ran like a champion. It is a great consolation to show how dominant I am. I am the Olympic champion and the world champion, but I want Justin Gatlin to be the champion of everything,

I have had enough rest and enough training,

Double gold means I'm king of the sprints. It shows I'm the best sprinter around.

People mistakenly believe that if you do nothing but train you can only get better. You've got to work hard, but the harder you work the harder you must rest and relax.

I don't want to leave the sport saying I could have run faster. I just want to be tapped out, like I gave it my all.

It is simply not consistent with either my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.

I look at myself as the 'Batman' of track -- a vigilante. You may not like me, but I'm needed.