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
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. – 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
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event – not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics – then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light. – Simon Winchester