Michelle Perry Quotes

He said, `OK kid, time to make a decision,`

I could feel everybody, ... I knew I had to charge home. I`m happy that I just finished clean and strong. I enjoy the heptathlon. At first, it was an adjustment for me. I`m not completely developed in all the events. I believe I can do both.

I knew today, whatever it took, I would win, ... It was my time regardless. I was strongest at the end.

It`s been a long season and its hard to get up for an event so late in the year.

To me, I knew in my heart from Day 1 that I could do amazing things in hurdles, ... Nobody else believed that. I always believed that. Now I`ve got the opportunity to prove that to the world.

I didn`t know where I was in the race, ... but I could feel everybody behind me, that I had to charge home. I`m just happy that I finished clean and strong.

I was like a little kid because I said, `Oh my God it`s Jackie Joyner-Kersee!` ... I had never seen her in person. I only saw her on TV. I was kind of star struck.

It wasn`t a shock to me, ... I know most people in the world are shocked. I know what I`ve been doing at practice and I wasn`t able to spend that time on the hurdles. Once I stepped away from the heptathlon for a while, I was able to give 100-percent energy to the hurdles, and I knew that`s what it would take to get to an elite level at that event.

I don`t know. I think a lot of us are kind of happy she`s not here!

I think this was my year for things to really work out for me.