A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

I like being unconventional.

Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.

I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.

I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.