“I'm not saying everything was better in the old days; it wasn't. We ha...” — Colin Jackson Quote

I'm not saying everything was better in the old days; it wasn't. We had no Lottery funding to give us money to live on, medical support and tremendous facilities. But we did produce winners.

You know, if you want to go out for example, you're always checking and making sure whether the pollen count is super high. I always slightly freak out if I haven't taken my antihistamine tablet, and things like that really do play havoc with you.

One of my biggest ambitions was to perform well at championships - I knew if I did that I was going to run fast anyway.

A 10,000m race is like a chess game and you are watching, wondering what's going on and what's going to happen.

In a moment of stress, funding may go to systemically-important firms, which could pull funding away from firms not making the cut.

Obviously Massachusetts has one of the best public school systems in the country. But there are schools, like in Brockton, where kids are struggling because they just need more funding.

I think funding risky projects is very important.

If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.

Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.