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Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.

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Work, Work Hard, Prepared, Dreams

In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming back in the next race. I'm always ready for the next race.

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Race, Next, Always, Handle

I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.

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Doing, Use, Across, Diploma

I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games.

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Winning, Olympic, Relay

I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's totally different from what I had been doing but I find it challenging and fun. To be honest, I really don't miss the track. I pretty well accomplished what I set out to do and it was time to move on.

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Doing, Been, Had, Investing

I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.

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Doing, Clients, Away, Burnt

I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe.

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Race, Like, Starter, Transition

A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.

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Me, Very, Take, Team Sport

Always educate yourself.

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Yourself, Always, Educate

I'm Jamaican, man. I'm Jamaican first. You gotta understand that's where I'm from. That's home. That you can never take away from me. I'm a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.

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Understand, Away, Gotta, Sprinter

You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.

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Think, Need, Other, Good Friends

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.

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Love, Jazz, Like, Davis

I'm a competitor.

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Competitor

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

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Mentor, Needs, Everybody, Kid

I think that every single person should play sports.

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Play, Think, I Think, Single

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