Tobi Amusan

"The goal was to come out and to win this gold, Honestly, I believe in my abilities, but I was not expecting a world record at these championships."

"Unknown now, but I will be UNFORGETTABLE … I will Persist until I SUCCEED …."

"At this moment, Kendra owns the record and I don’t have any but she doesn’t have two heads. It will be good for me to run a PR or break the world record if she is not careful–just kidding…"

"Physically, I think I was ready, but mentally I wasn’t. I think my mentality let me down."

"Remember someone saying that I'm a giant in Africa, but a wounded lion on the world stage."

"This is good news for Nigerian athletics and sports in general and I pray and hope it inspires this generation of sports men and women of this generation and other generations to come."

"Hard work pays. Tobi is a hardworking girl who believes so much in herself and her coach (Jamaica's Lacena Golden-Clark). She didn’t give up after coming close to making the podium twice, first at the World Championships in Doha, Qatar in 2019 where she came fourth and at the delayed 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan where she also came fourth, losing by the narrowest of margins, especially in 2019. She never doubted herself or her coach."