"Don't tell me I cheated the system because that's [expletive]. I didn't get treated fairly by the system. They cast me out and they were jealous because I turned in the fastest time ever run by a human and it was impossible at the time."
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Quoted in Stan Grossfield, "Johnson has been slow to admit wrongdoing,"] The Boston Globe (2005-04-28)
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