Maurice Greene
Athlete
1974-07-23
Books by Maurice Greene
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Quotes by Maurice Greene
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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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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.
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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. Which is what I intend to do.
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Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with.
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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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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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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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