An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.