"And you know, my coach calls me crazy sometimes because I kept saying, ‘Again, again, again, again.’ I just want to make sure that practice makes permanent. And as I always say, ‘Permanent makes paper"

"I’ve accomplished all my lifetime goals"

"It’s a world championships, you’ll always have nerves for the world championships wherever you’re at"

"I put myself in these high-pressure situations. I just wanted to just make sure that when the gun went off, I took care of my lane, my space. So I put enough of a gap to where I kind of had it squared away. I just had to make sure I didn't knock down any hurdles"

"I think I can put grace in it and hang up the 60m hurdles and try out a new event next year"

"This was not the outcome that I wanted but it enables me to say I’m an Olympic medalist"

"You need a lot of mental fortitude. I say, ‘Alright, if I don't do this, let's do some push-ups.' It's like a punishment. You put yourself through those situations so that you know exactly what you need to do to win"

"I turned pro in 2019, so in almost five years I accomplished everything that I wanted to do in track and field. So this is the tough part, I have to continue to find ways to get motivated"

"It was great. This one was a little bit different. I didn’t have two great rounds, and had to rely on my experience to get me through the final"

"But I’m young, I’ve got a lot of races under my belt, so I’ll take this with a grain of salt and I keep moving forward"

"But I knew what I had to do, I knew what I was missing. With that being said, a big shout-out to the sports staff. Everybody was telling me, ’You’ve done this a million times before, you’ve just got to do it again"

"We tried too early on to push our stuff out there to the bigger people — like the ones you mentioned [Netflix and Amazon]. It quickly turned into a ‘no,’ but I think with the success of the shows and us doing it on our own kind of proved to me that we can do this by ourselves"

"We don’t need to have anybody else, but we definitely tried, and it was a lot of ‘no’s.’ So I think that was the reason why we went and banked on ourselves [and] put all our money into it. So it’s just me and my own personal production company 4Lifers"

"It was a collaborative approach on the creative where they gave me the freedom to interject personalities from my world into the content, which helped to organically connect the two spaces. It was entertaining to play various school characters while highlighting SNIPES in a fresh way. I look forward to continued work with SNIPES as they’ve shown they are authentic and true to the culture"

"We’re very picky about who we work with"

"A woman's prayer, how powerful it is in a man's life. If you get a woman on your side to pray for you, things can change in a different way"

"I mainly do it for the fans, knowing that I can do it myself. And now that I have money from brand deals and people that I work with to do it, it’s like I don’t need another company to come in"

"That’s what I want to build. You ain’t gotta understand this. You have to surround yourself with good people and hardworking people that have the same vision as you"

"I graduated twelve years ago, barely…That’s what made my personality today — that school"

"For the majority of my company, For Life Entertainment, we try to make sure that we have a say in any of the stuff that we’re putting out, or any of the commercial stuff"

"I hope others will follow that same process and know that if you are getting money from these companies, don’t just think that you have to go buy a car or go buy a big house"

"The same school I was getting kicked out of is is the same school I’m shooting the commercial at n"

"So many people are starting to find out that they can do it themselves, which is why I pride myself on what we have done"

"People being real. It's got to be real to make me laugh. Either it's real, or someone's told me a bold-face lie. I think it's funny because if they think I believe that, they must be crazy"

"Everybody was mad because I had to leave social media, but I had to leave social media to become the person I am in standup today"

"A smart thing you can do is try to build your own IP and try to build your own business around you"

"Just know they're coming to see the real. We'll be there all the way live, and I've come to make them laugh"

"Now, I’m leaving standup because there’s a lot of stuff in Hollywood that I got going on that I got to do. And, God got a lot in me, and creating these ideas that I put together, which is the ideas that you love"

"Expect the unexpected. It's like talking to your family members, and making everybody laugh"

"We speak of real life and with real drama that's going on, and situations people know of and have heard of. If you watch a Kountry Wayne sketch, you're going to get a lot of situations"

"Now, a lot of people like, ‘Wayne, you leaving millions of dollars on the table,’ but the reason being, I tell everybody when God tells you to move, you got to move sometimes"

"Sometimes you got to lose to win. Everything I got going right now, I put it on the backburner for standup for years. If y’all can remember, back in the day, when I went and did standup, I had to stop doing social media content"

"I like what we provide should be done in conjunction with your traditional mental health care."

"I like to think that healing requires an innovative and holistic approach."

"You have to kind of separate yourself from it."

"I would probably say instead of dissecting whether or not you, as an individual, would be considered a survivor."

"You have to take into account every element that went into this traumatic situation and you have to break it down."

"I was noticing how it didn't feel like a chore."

"I was paying attention to how I was feeling and how I was changing emotionally when I was in the studio."

"I think one of the biggest challenges that survivors face is identifying as a survivor."

"I have to develop a sense of comfort."

"I had about allowing people into my personal space, I had to let that go."

"It was when I really started understanding that in order for me to receive corrections while I'm in the studio."

"A lot of the trauma we endure is conditioned to be treated as either a rite of passage."

"Putting power back into their hands and letting us know how they want to heal."

"We've created, a few different ways for us to, connect with community."

"So that's why we wanted to make sure that when we were developing our programing, we had a variety for them to choose from."

"Our other programs focus on engagement, exposure, and art enhancement and appreciation."