My stance has always been that theres no place in our sport for drug users. Ive always said its a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that. – Maurice Greene

Youd 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
In America, we have three major sports – baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then theres 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
I never appreciated positive heroes in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more productive literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. – Jose Saramago